{"id":2989,"date":"2011-02-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:16:06","slug":"defector-admits-to-wmd-lies-that-triggered-iraq-war-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2011\/02\/16\/defector-admits-to-wmd-lies-that-triggered-iraq-war-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a variation on the bumper sticker: Iraqi lies to Bush, people die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turns out we based the whole &#8220;Iraq has WMDs&#8221; argument on one guy.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/feb\/15\/defector-admits-wmd-lies-iraq-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Who apparently lied<\/a>&nbsp;about the WMD program under Saddam&#8217;s rule that caused us to invade the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally, I had always believed they made the whole damn thing up because they were gonna invade anyways but got sidetracked by 9\/11. It turns out there actually&nbsp;<em>was<\/em>&nbsp;a guy, and he was a liar. You know, just like Powell, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Yoo, Rice, and the rest of the Apocalyptic Scooby gang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ya know, if you are gonna take the word of one guy before taking this nation to war, couldn&#8217;t you at least&nbsp;<em>pretend<\/em>&nbsp;to investigate his claims?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I mean, I&#8217;ve got no use for Reagan, but if these folks are gonna treat him like Right Wing God, couldn&#8217;t they AT LEAST adhere to the &#8220;Trust but&nbsp;<strong>VERIFY<\/strong>&#8221; commandment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a variation on the bumper sticker: Iraqi lies to Bush, people die. Turns out we based the whole &#8220;Iraq has WMDs&#8221; argument on one guy.&nbsp;Who apparently lied&nbsp;about the WMD program under Saddam&#8217;s rule that caused us to invade the country. Personally, I had always believed they made the whole damn thing up because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rethug-morons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}