{"id":734,"date":"2007-10-30T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-10-30T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T14:49:45","slug":"102707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"10\/27\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past several days, I continue to work on Vote Smart’s “2008 Presidential Candidate Political Courage Test.” \u00a0<\/strong> Part of the test calls for 100 word essays on various topics. \u00a0 The following is another of those answers per: “National Security Issues”: \u00a0 I told the Athens News<\/em> that we have to objectively analyze the reasons for terrorism toward the United States. \u00a0 Some of these include: our own massive nuclear weapons build-up; training froeign paramilitary groups in terror techniques; exploiting other contries resources… In addition, author Richard Horsley notes that the 9\/11 terrorist attacks were, in part, motivated by those “angry at the western capitalist consumerism that has invaded their lives (through media\/entertainment, etc.) and undermined their traditional values.” \u00a0 Then there were the Iraq sanctions that killed some 1 million people; U.S. backed Israili military; U. S. Military in Saudi Arabia… \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past several days, I continue to work on Vote Smart’s “2008 Presidential Candidate Political Courage Test.” \u00a0 Part of the test calls for 100 word essays on various topics. \u00a0 The following is another of those answers per: …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}