{"id":14637,"date":"2021-07-01T03:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=14637"},"modified":"2021-07-01T03:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T01:54:22","slug":"a-very-good-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=14637","title":{"rendered":"A Very Good Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-57674117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-57674117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14638\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rumsfeld-dies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rumsfeld-dies.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rumsfeld-dies-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rumsfeld-dies-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFormer US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one of the main architects of the Iraq war, has died at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p>Serving under President George W Bush, he was a leading proponent of the administration&#8217;s &#8222;war on terror&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the news, President Bush described him as &#8222;a very good man&#8220; and an &#8222;exemplary public servant&#8220; who &#8222;never flinched from responsibility&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14639\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Twitter-on-Rumsfeld-dies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Twitter-on-Rumsfeld-dies.jpg 697w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Twitter-on-Rumsfeld-dies-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Twitter-on-Rumsfeld-dies-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/30\/donald-rumsfeld-dies-us-defense-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Smith, Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rumsfeld was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, serving alongside future vice-president Dick Cheney, then became defense secretary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Nixon Administration doesn&#8217;t make it into Smith&#8217;s piece &#8211; this is, after all, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Guardian-level<\/span> analysis.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"German FM makes impassioned plea for peace\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CpuN-yM1sZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/2021\/27\/abzug-afghanistan-bundeswehr-auslandseinsatz-truppen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Die Zeit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Die Bundeswehr zieht aus Afghanistan ab. Damit endet der l\u00e4ngste und verlustreichste Auslandseinsatz ihrer Geschichte. War es das wert? Das fragen sich die zur\u00fcckkehrenden Soldaten ebenso wie die Afghanen, die \u00fcber Jahre neben dem letzten Camp der Deutschen gelebt haben.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one of the main architects of the Iraq war, has died at the age of 88. Serving under President George W Bush, he was a leading proponent of the administration&#8217;s &#8222;war on terror&#8220;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=14637\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}