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By JAN HERMAN<\/p>\nBy JAN HERMAN<\/p>\n
Parsing words is the liar’s last resort. So Cheney Boy had\u00a0nowhere else to go to justify his absurd claim that the Iraq insurgency was in its last throes<\/b><\/span><\/a>. “If you look at what\u00a0the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period, the throes of a revolution,” he said on CNN<\/b><\/span><\/a>. Uh-huh. If you\u00a0look at what it says about arrogant, it’s still spelled C-h-e-n-e-y<\/b>, who also calls Gitmo a tropical resort<\/b><\/span><\/a> kinda\u00a0like a Club Med (“They got a brand new facility down at Guantanamo. They’re very well treated By JAN HERMAN Parsing words is the liar’s last resort. So Cheney Boy had\u00a0nowhere else to go to justify his absurd claim that the Iraq insurgency was in its last throes. “If you look at what\u00a0the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period, the throes of a revolution,” he said on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-iJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50622,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/50622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndown there. They’re living in the tropics. They’re well fed. They’ve got everything they could\u00a0possibly want.”), B-u-s-h<\/b>, who relishes calling himself “the war president,” <\/b><\/span><\/a>R-u-m-s-f-e-l-d<\/strong>, who insists on the delusion that we’re not losing in\u00a0Iraq<\/b><\/span><\/a>, and R-o-v-e<\/strong>, who claims liberals wanted to “offer therapy and\u00a0understanding”<\/b><\/span><\/a> to the 9\/11 terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"