{"id":1522,"date":"2006-12-08T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/12\/foodies_on_iraq\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T18:57:35","slug":"foodies_on_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/12\/foodies_on_iraq.html","title":{"rendered":"Foodies on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t treat it as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/08\/world\/middleeast\/08prexy.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;fruit salad,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> says James Baker. It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12082006\/news\/nationalnews\/recipe_for_our_defeat_nationalnews_geoff_earle___post_correspondent.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;recipe for our defeat,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> says John McCain. At last we&#8217;ve come to the real terms of debate over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usip.org\/isg\/iraq_study_group_report\/report\/1206\/index.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Iraq Study Group Report<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. It&#8217;s a foodie fight.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12082006\/photos\/news005.jpg\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"John McCain [Illustration and photo from The New York Post]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/mccain%20240.jpg\" width=239 align=right border=0 \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/one-of-these-is-correct-dewey-defeats.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Conservative jerks<\/strong><\/font><\/a> like McCain who support the war call the report a recipe for defeat as if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/08\/jim_holts_criti.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/strong><\/font><\/a> has ever offered a recipe for anything but. You have to wonder about their sanity <i>and<\/i> their tastebuds. Baker asked pols to eat the report whole, not to pick at it (<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2003467314_iraqreport08.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;I like this but I don&#8217;t like that.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a>). You have to wonder about his fruity choice of language.  (Arianne Huffington treats the thing more like a Big Mac&#174;. She&#8217;s for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/arianna-huffington\/cutting-the-fat-from-the-_b_35823.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;cutting the fat.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a>)<br \/>\nFoodies, feh!<br \/>\nAs a British political analyst and antiwar activist, Milan Rai, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/12\/08\/158229\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>pointed out<\/strong><\/font><\/a> this morning on Democracy Now!, the report offers a mere &#8220;modification of the occupation&#8221; of Iraq. The debate over the report gives the erroneous impression that real withdrawal is at stake, which is &#8220;not the case at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t treat it as a &#8220;recipe for our defeat,&#8221; says John McCain. At last we&#8217;ve come to the real terms of debate over the Bullshitter-in-Chief has ever offered a recipe for anything but. You have to wonder about their sanity and their tastebuds. 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