{"id":4486,"date":"2016-01-20T21:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T04:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2016-01-20T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T04:41:53","slug":"cruz-sez-diplomacy-is-for-pussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4486","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Sez Diplomacy Is For Pussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/four-american-prisoners-released-by-iran-state-news-reporting_us_569a5361e4b0778f46f98651?iusg7gb9=%3Fclear\" target=\"_blank\">the Obama administration not only pulled off a prisoner exchange where they swapped 7 Iranians for 4 Americans who had been held for years on false charges<\/a>, but they also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/war_stories\/2016\/01\/iran_s_release_of_the_u_s_sailors_vindicates_president_obama_s_foreign_policy.html\" target=\"_blank\">got 10 U.S. Navy sailors, who had accidentally drifted into Iranian waters, released within one day<\/a>. You&#8217;d think everyone, including the GOP, would be ecstatic over these displays of calm and cool diplomacy. But NOOOOOOOOOOO! The ridiculous, whining, crybaby Republican candidates for president did nothing but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/republicans-criticize-prisoner-swap_us_5699452ce4b0778f46f93f6f\" target=\"_blank\">criticize the Obama administration saying the exchange made America look weak<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cruz-only-reason-sailors-were-seized-by-iran-is-because-of-the-weakness-of-barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Cruz, Teabagger darling and the smuggest senator alive, even said that the only reason the sailors were taken in the first place was because of the weakness of Obama<\/a>. Of course, the Republicans\u00a0 would have started World War III and nuked them &#8217;til they glowed because that&#8217;s what manly men do. Screw life on earth, there are gargantuan egos and pride at stake. Yes, there&#8217;s nothing like administering 19th century, &#8216;wild west&#8217; philosophy in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4490\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obamacruzdiplomacyrepublicansiran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obamacruzdiplomacyrepublicansiran.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Cruz declares that diplomacy is for pussies and that he'd nuke Iran unitl they glowed.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obamacruzdiplomacyrepublicansiran.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/obamacruzdiplomacyrepublicansiran-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOP candidate and smuggest Senator alive, Ted Cruz, gives Americans a hint at what foreign policy would be like during a possible Cruz presidency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the Obama administration not only pulled off a prisoner exchange where they swapped 7 Iranians for 4 Americans who had been held for years on false charges, but they also got 10 U.S. Navy sailors, who had accidentally drifted into Iranian waters, released within one day. You&#8217;d think everyone, including the GOP, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cruz Sez Diplomacy Is For Pussies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1126,60,8,3,198],"tags":[252,22,783,94,147,1252,9,679,1254,21,43,98,596,1251,19,1253,47,48,784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}