{"id":1536,"date":"2003-04-30T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2003-04-30T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-30T20:19:00","slug":"emphasizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/30\/16\/19\/emphasizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Emphasizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Krugman has also noticed<\/a> the extraordinary “I am not a crook!<\/a>“-like chutzpah<\/a> of a White House that obviously feels it can now never be held accountable, when it dismissed Presidential lies as “as a matter of emphasis”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We were not lying,” a Bush administration official told ABC News. “But it was just a matter of emphasis.” The official was referring to the way the administration hyped the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States. According to the ABC report, the real reason for the war was that the administration “wanted to make a statement.” And why Iraq? “Officials acknowledge that Saddam had all the requirements to make him, from their standpoint, the perfect target.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Krugman has also noticed the extraordinary “I am not a crook!“-like chutzpah of a White House that obviously feels it can now never be held accountable, when it dismissed Presidential lies as “as...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t