{"id":666,"date":"2004-12-09T23:29:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2004-12-09T23:29:38","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T06:29:38","slug":"words-of-wtf-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Words of WTF Wisdom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/12\/08\/international\/RUMSFELD.jpg\" width=\"92\" height=\"116\" border=\"0\">&#8220;You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have. [&#8230;] You can have all the armor in the world on a tank&#8230;and a tank&#8230;can be blown up.  And you can have an up-armored Humvee, and it can be blown up.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tries to explain to troops in Kuwait why they&#8217;re protecting themselves with &#8220;hillbilly armor&#8221;, 12\/8\/2004<\/p>\n<p>Words fail me.  To borrow a phrase from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewisblack.net\">Lewis Black<\/a>, I&#8217;m amazed the amassed Army personnel didn&#8217;t rise up as one and <i>slay<\/i> him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have. [&#8230;] You can have all the armor in the world on a tank&#8230;and a tank&#8230;can be blown up. And you can have an up-armored Humvee, and it can be blown up.&#8221; -Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}