{"id":2619,"date":"2011-11-03T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/real-time-panel-tears-into-former-cheney-aide-over-support-for-iraq-war.html"},"modified":"2011-11-03T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T09:41:00","slug":"real-time-panel-tears-into-former-cheney-aide-over-support-for-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/real-time-panel-tears-into-former-cheney-aide-over-support-for-iraq-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Time Panel Tears Into Former Cheney Aide Over Support For Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: #f8f8f2;font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 15px;line-height: 20px;margin-bottom: 12px;margin-top: 3px\">Last Friday\u2019s episode of\u00a0<em>Real Time with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/power-grid\/person\/?q=Bill+Maher\" style=\"color: #1e5978;text-decoration: none\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Maher<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>featured a passionate debate between\u00a0<strong>Cornel West<\/strong>, a Princeton professor who has attended many of the Occupy Wall Street protests, and\u00a0<strong>Ron Christie<\/strong>, a Republican strategist who previously worked as a staffer for Vice President\u00a0<strong>Dick Cheney<\/strong>. The first topic of discussion after Christie came on the panel was Libya and why Republicans were not willing to give\u00a0<strong>President Obama<\/strong>\u00a0credit for carrying out the operation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 15px;line-height: 20px;margin-bottom: 12px;margin-top: 3px\">Christie explained that before going into Libya, it was important to ask what the clear objective was, how to win, and \u201cwhat is the definition of success.\u201d Former CNN foreign correspondent\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/power-grid\/person\/?q=Michael+Ware\" style=\"color: #1e5978;text-decoration: none\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Ware<\/a><\/strong>, who spent roughly seven years in Iraq, exploded at this point and asked why he didn\u2019t ask those same questions when he served in the Bush administration.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 15px;line-height: 20px;margin-bottom: 12px;margin-top: 3px\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/real-time-panel-tears-into-former-cheney-aide-over-support-for-iraq-war\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday\u2019s episode of\u00a0Real Time with\u00a0Bill Maher\u00a0featured a passionate debate between\u00a0Cornel West, a Princeton professor who has attended many of the Occupy Wall Street protests, and\u00a0Ron Christie, a Republican strategist who previously worked as a staffer for Vice President\u00a0Dick Cheney. The first topic of discussion after Christie came on the panel was Libya and why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Real Time Panel Tears Into Former Cheney Aide Over Support For Iraq War<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last Friday&#039;s episode of&nbsp;Real Time with&nbsp;Bill Maher&nbsp;featured a passionate debate between&nbsp;Cornel West, a Princeton professor who has\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/real-time-panel-tears-into-former-cheney-aide-over-support-for-iraq-war.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Real Time Panel Tears Into Former Cheney Aide Over Support For Iraq War\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last Friday&#039;s episode of&nbsp;Real Time with&nbsp;Bill Maher&nbsp;featured a passionate debate between&nbsp;Cornel West, a Princeton professor who has\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/real-time-panel-tears-into-former-cheney-aide-over-support-for-iraq-war.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-03T09:41:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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