{"id":799,"date":"2009-05-06T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2009-05-06T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T20:52:17","slug":"just_a_quick_thought_on_the_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Just A Quick Thought On The Torture Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/023502.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;posted a short article by Paul Mirengoff today dealing with the charges that George Bush&#8217;s &#8216;torture&#8217; policies were a drastic departure from the &#8216;American&#8217; way.&nbsp; The article links to a previous&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/023498.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;article by Paul detailing the use of &#8216;torture&#8217; since World War II.&nbsp; There was no difference in policy&#8211;the change was that the political party not in power decided to release classified information in order to make the political party in power look bad.&nbsp; The actual effect of the release of this information was to make America look bad in the eyes of the world.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The issue of terrorism during the Bush Administration was the first time in the history of America that a party not in power had used national security as a political issue.&nbsp; Unfortunately, that is still going on and will continue in the future.&nbsp; It is a shame that our elected officials are too small as people to put the interests of the country above their own personal gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Line&nbsp;posted a short article by Paul Mirengoff today dealing with the charges that George Bush&#8217;s &#8216;torture&#8217; policies were a drastic departure from the &#8216;American&#8217; way.&nbsp; The article links to a previous&nbsp;Power Line&nbsp;article by Paul detailing the use of &#8216;torture&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}