{"id":5924,"date":"2009-06-18T19:07:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/bush-tries-to-defend-guantanamo\/5924\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T19:07:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:07:56","slug":"bush-tries-to-defend-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/bush-tries-to-defend-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Tries To Defend Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RINF NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for over an hour at a business meeting in Pennsylvania, Former President George W. Bush attacked plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way I decided to address the problem was twofold: One, use every technique and tool within the law to bring terrorists to justice before they strike again,&#8221; Said Mr. Bush<\/p>\n<p>Bush asserted he would not directly criticize\u00a0President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told you I&#8217;m not going to criticize my successor. I&#8217;ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don&#8217;t believe that &#8212; persuasion isn&#8217;t going to work. Therapy isn&#8217;t going to cause terrorists to change their mind,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bush also spoke out against Obama&#8217;s health care and economic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of ways to remedy the situation without nationalizing health care. I worry about encouraging the government to replace the private sector when it comes to providing insurance for health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worry about encouraging the government to replace the private sector when it comes to providing insurance for health care,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF NEWS Speaking for over an hour at a business meeting in Pennsylvania, Former President George W. Bush attacked plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. &#8220;The way I decided to address the problem was twofold: One, use every technique and tool within the law to bring terrorists to justice before they strike again,&#8221; Said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-5924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"tag-guantanamo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}