{"id":634,"date":"2004-04-15T14:38:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T19:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/04\/15\/freedom\/"},"modified":"2004-04-15T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T19:38:50","slug":"freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/04\/15\/freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Head Spook Sputters&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/15\/opinion\/15DOWD.html&#8221;>The New York Times > Opinion >Head Spook Sputters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He reiterated that his mission is dictated from above: &#8220;Freedom is the almighty&#8217;s gift to every man and woman in this world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Given the Saudi religious authority&#8217;s fatwa against our troops, and given that our marines are surrounding a cleric in the holy city of Najaf, we really don&#8217;t want to make Muslims think we&#8217;re fighting a holy war. That would only further inflame the Arab world and endanger our overstretched military, so let&#8217;s hope that Mr. Bush&#8217;s reference to the almighty was to Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sf4VN-freedom","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}