{"id":7,"date":"2003-02-27T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:24:29","slug":"bush-and-hussein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/bush-and-hussein\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and Hussein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you seen the summary
\nof this interview<\/a> that Dan Rather did with Saddam Hussein? At minimum, we
\nknow that this man is more articulate than the US president. Do I trust \/ believe
\nhim? Not really. Do I trust \/ believe Bush? Not really. I think what’s smart about
\nthis situation is that the Iraqi president is more than willing to engage in dialogue
\nabout the possible (probable) war, something that may sway the rest of the world
\ninto his favor. Hussein is a far cry from an angel; however, he has concisely
\npointed out that the US justification for war (ties to al Qaeda and missiles)
\nare questionable, if not nonexistent. There are many "evil" (shall we
\ndeconstruct this word and its ties to religion?) and powerful men in the world,
\nbut the US tends to go where the oil is, it seems. Why not the Sudan\/Congo\/Zimbabwe?
\nThe largest slave trade in the history of mankind is not<\/i> in Iraq, but in
\nthe Sudan, today.<\/i> Interestingly enough, one could try swapping key quotes
\nfrom both Bush and Hussein (replacing the religion-specific words for God where
\nnecessary), and they are often identical…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you seen the summary of this interview that Dan Rather did with Saddam Hussein? At minimum, we know that this man is more articulate than the US president. Do I trust \/ believe him? Not really. Do I trust \/ believe Bush? Not really. I think what’s smart about this situation is that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/27\/can-americans-do-irony\/","url_meta":{"origin":7,"position":0},"title":"can americans do irony?","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 April 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"As CNN begins to look more and more like Fox news (whose CEO is none other than Bush's cousin), I'm beginning to think there has to be some irony in all of this. 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