{"id":7269,"date":"2013-09-05T13:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2013-09-05T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:45:23","slug":"lets-burst-the-bubble-of-saint-ronnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s burst the bubble of saint Ronnie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I am gagging at the new repub talking point that goes something like this: Saint Ronnie would have responded more quickly to any chemical weapon attack than Obama and would not have allowed anyone to use them when he was in office&#8230;.and this comes from &#8220;top republicans&#8221; in congress&#8230;.what a crock of crap. Do these people not even think of history when they open their mouths? Let&#8217;s burst this bubble right now with just a small dose of history that these idiots conveniently ignore&#8230;first, during saint Ronnie&#8217;s term&#8230;the administration knew that Iraq was using chemical weapons in it&#8217;s war with Iran and even used satellite photos to tell Iraq where the Iranian troops were&#8230;hundreds of thousands killed&#8230;second, saint Ronnie stood by when Saddam turned his chemical weapons on the Kurds in Iraq that were revolting against his regime&#8230;another 100,000 dead or maimed&#8230;saint Ronnie knew and did nothing. So, to say that saint Ronnie is the template for action on the use of chemical weapons is to laugh, and laugh, and laugh&#8230;.what happened on his watch is so much worse than what is happening now in Syria that the repubs need to just shut up about it&#8230;not that they will&#8230;truth doesn&#8217;t mean anything to them when they think they are scoring political points&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I am gagging at the new repub talking point that goes something like this: Saint Ronnie would have responded more quickly to any chemical weapon attack than Obama and would not have allowed anyone to use them when he was in office&#8230;.and this comes from &#8220;top republicans&#8221; in congress&#8230;.what a crock of crap. Do these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s burst the bubble of saint Ronnie&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[943,640,349],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-iran","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}