{"id":265,"date":"2007-06-04T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T21:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=265"},"modified":"2007-06-04T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T21:04:27","slug":"boortz-pops-a-rivet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Boortz Pops a Rivet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Boortz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How long was it going to take before a Defeatocrat came up with this one? John Murtha\u00e2\u20ac\u201dour favorite moonbat from Pennsylvania\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsays that the terrorists arrested in the JFK plot were a product of the war in Iraq. Basically, if we had not gone into Iraq, this terrorist plot would never have come about. He is the boat with 9\/11 conspiracy theorists and all those who sympathize with &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; and the &#8220;peaceful&#8221; religion of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>What has this man been smoking? If this was the excuse for the JFK plot, than who does he blame the 9\/11 attacks on? He does not understand that the fundamental hatred of terrorists is not based on our presence in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a complete non-sequitur.  Murtha may be right or wrong.  But the concept of &#8220;blowback&#8221; does not in any way support 9\/11 conspiracy theories or provide comfort to terrorists.  It&#8217;s a <em>simple fucking fact<\/em>.  (And you thought fatherhood would make me lighten up.)<\/p>\n<p>Have conservatives even <em>read<\/em> the 9\/11 report?  Being aware of blowback doesn&#8217;t automatically mean you&#8217;re even against the War in Iraq, least of all against the War on Terror.  Blowback can be worth it &#8212; blowback can be a cost of war, just like dead American soldiers is a cost of war.<\/p>\n<p>But to sit around and pretend that blowback doesn&#8217;t exist?  To be frank, Boortz, that&#8217;s First Rank Moonbatism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Boortz: How long was it going to take before a Defeatocrat came up with this one? John Murtha\u00e2\u20ac\u201dour favorite moonbat from Pennsylvania\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsays that the terrorists arrested in the JFK plot were a product of the war in Iraq. Basically, if we had not gone into Iraq, this terrorist plot would never have come about. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boortz Pops a Rivet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}