{"id":104,"date":"2004-05-13T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T07:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2004-05-13T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T07:05:21","slug":"you-gotta-love-those-republicans-they-try-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/13\/you-gotta-love-those-republicans-they-try-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Love Those Republicans &#8212; They Try So Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>The Bush campaign has repeatedly accused the senator of &#8220;politicizing&#8221; Iraq. Bush-Cheney chairman Marc Racicot told reporters Wednesday that Kerry is relentlessly &#8220;playing politics&#8221; and exploiting tragedy for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>Racicot, for instance, told reporters that Kerry suggested that 150,000 or so U.S. troops are &#8220;somehow universally responsible&#8221; for the misdeeds of a small number of American soldiers and contractors. Racicot made several variations of this charge. But Kerry never said this, or anything like it.<\/p>\n<p>As evidence, Racicot pointed to the following quote Kerry made at a fundraiser on Tuesday: &#8220;What has happened is not just something that a few a privates or corporals or sergeants engaged in. This is something that comes out of an attitude about the rights of prisoners of war, it&#8217;s an attitude that comes out of America&#8217;s overall arrogance in its policy that is alienating countries all around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What Racicot did not mention was that Kerry preceded this remark by saying, &#8220;I know that what happened over there is not the behavior of 99.9 percent of our troops.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A22443-2004May12?language=printer\">The Washington Post, May 13 2004<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush campaign has repeatedly accused the senator of &#8220;politicizing&#8221; Iraq. Bush-Cheney chairman Marc Racicot told reporters Wednesday that Kerry is relentlessly &#8220;playing politics&#8221; and exploiting tragedy for political gain. Racicot, for instance, told reporters that Kerry suggested that 150,000 or so U.S. troops are &#8220;somehow universally responsible&#8221; for the misdeeds of a small number of American soldiers and contractors. Racicot made several variations of this charge. But Kerry never said this, or anything like it. As evidence, Racicot pointed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}