{"id":1175,"date":"2004-08-03T04:40:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T09:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/general-mcpeak-rips-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-08-03T04:40:49","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T09:40:49","slug":"general-mcpeak-rips-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/general-mcpeak-rips-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"general mcpeak rips bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>as with most of america,  it seems the military is split on the presidential race&#8230; in this corner, you have the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/swift_vets_hammer_kerry.html\">swift vets<\/a> that think kerry is unfit as a commander in chief.  in the other corner, there&#8217;s retired air force general tony mcpeak, a former dole and bush 2000 campaigner, who stepped up to deliver the democratic radio address this past weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/31\/dems.radio\/index.html\">Retired general: Bush foreign policy a &#8216;national disaster&#8217;<\/a> [cnn, july 31, 2004]<\/div>\n<p> &#8220;We built the team that won World War II. We put together the great team that won the Cold War. That&#8217;s why what has happened over the last three years is such a tragedy, such a national disaster. Rebuilding the team won&#8217;t be easy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i guess someone will have to hack together a website comparing the military medals lined up behind each of the presidential candidates now.  i&#8217;ll see your rear admiral with my general and raise you a captain and three purple hearts, two green clovers, a yellow moon and six blue diamonds.  i just hope they break out the data by state so we can do some electoral college analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as with most of america, it seems the military is split on the presidential race&#8230; in this corner, you have the swift vets that think kerry is unfit as a commander in chief. in the other corner, there&#8217;s retired air force general tony mcpeak, a former dole and bush 2000 campaigner, who stepped up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}