{"id":1136,"date":"2003-04-22T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/22\/what-did-he-say\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:38:50","slug":"what-did-he-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/22\/what-did-he-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What did he say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14792,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thestar.com\\\/NASApp\\\/cs\\\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\\\/Layout\\\/Article_PrintFriendly&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1035781107133&amp;call_pageid=968332188492&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041125165917\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thestar.com:80\\\/NASApp\\\/cs\\\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\\\/Layout\\\/Article_PrintFriendly&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.thestar.com\\\/nasapp\\\/cs\\\/contentserver\\\/?pagename=thestar\\\/Layout\\\/Article_PrintFriendly&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 18:59:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 18:59:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14793,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_04_20.html#000477&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140814233937\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com:80\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_04_20.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 03:25:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 03:25:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Remember diagramming sentences in your high school or college English classes? All those wierd little diagrams finding the various pieces of the phrases?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a challenge for you, then:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I have never, that I can recall, heard the subject of a permanent base in Iraq, discussed in any meeting. The likelihood of it seems to me to be so low that it does not surprise me that it&#8217;s never been discussed in my presence. To my knowledge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Courtesy of our own <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_PrintFriendly&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1035781107133&amp;call_pageid=968332188492\" title=\"Many faces of Donald Rumsfeld\">Donald Rumsfeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_04_20.html#000477\" title=\"The many faces of Rumsfeld\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never, that I can recall, heard the subject of a permanent base in Iraq, discussed in any meeting. The likelihood of it seems to me to be so low that it does not surprise me that it&#8217;s never been discussed in my presence. To my knowledge.<\/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-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}