{"id":1740,"date":"2004-10-29T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T06:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2004-10-29T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T06:58:20","slug":"2004-10-29-middle-easterners-for-bush-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Middle Easterners for Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"
Abu Aardvark notes<\/a> that there is some support after all for Bush in the region:<\/p>\n

Man, Lee Smith was really on to something with that whole “many Arabs like Bush” thing. Newsweek reports that “Randa Fahmy Hudome, who just this month signed a $1.4 million contract to represent the Libyan government, served as a behind-the-scenes ‘media consultant’ helping to prepare this week’s press release praising Bush’s record in promoting ‘human rights, democracy and self-determination’ in the Middle East.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, along with al Qaeda and Saudi diplomats, Bush is evidently favored by unrepentant dictator Moammar Qadaffi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice a trend here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doesn’t this bother any of the dwindling number of ‘liberal hawks’ who support Bush because of his supposed commitment to transforming the Middle East?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t forget that Bush is also supported by Iran’s supreme national security council<\/a>, as we had noted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And take a look at this Brian Whitaker article<\/a> on Bush support in the Middle East.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abu Aardvark notes<\/a> that there is some support after all for Bush in the region:<\/p>\n

Man, Lee Smith was really on to something with that whole “many Arabs like Bush” thing. Newsweek reports that “Randa Fahmy Hudome, who just this month signed a $1.4 million contract to represent the Libyan government, served as a behind-the-scenes ‘media consultant’ helping to prepare this week’s press release praising Bush’s record in promoting ‘human rights, democracy and self-determination’ in the Middle East.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, along with al Qaeda and Saudi diplomats, Bush is evidently favored by unrepentant dictator Moammar Qadaffi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice a trend here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Doesn’t this bother any of the dwindling number of ‘liberal hawks’ who support Bush because of his supposed commitment to transforming the Middle East?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t forget that Bush is also supported by Iran’s supreme national security council<\/a>, as we had noted here<\/a>.
\nAnd take a look at this Brian Whitaker article<\/a> on Bush support in the Middle East.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}