{"id":1012,"date":"2003-03-17T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/18\/damn-straight\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:43:04","slug":"damn-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/17\/damn-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15094,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/18\\\/politics\\\/18CONG.html?ex=1048654800&amp;en=33cf7e424de80e63&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=GOOGLE&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Most major Democratic presidential candidates also said they would abandon their criticism of Mr.\u00a0Bush&#8217;s diplomatic efforts and support him now that it appeared the nation was about to go to war. One Democrat, former Gov.\u00a0Howard Dean of Vermont, broke from the pack.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;This is not Iraq, where doubters and dissenters are punished or silenced &#8212; this is the United States of America,&#8221; Dr.\u00a0Dean said in a statement issued shortly after Mr.\u00a0Bush spoke. &#8220;We need to support our young people as they are sent to war by the president, and I have no doubt that American military power will prevail. But to ensure that our postwar policies are constructive and humane, based on enduring principles of peace and justice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/18\/politics\/18CONG.html?ex=1048654800&amp;en=33cf7e424de80e63&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=GOOGLE\" title=\"Both Parties Close Ranks Behind the President\">concerned Americans should continue to speak out<\/a>.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for you, Dean. Speak out we will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;to ensure that our postwar policies are constructive and humane, based on enduring principles of peace and justice, concerned Americans should continue to speak out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}