{"id":268,"date":"2006-04-25T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2006-04-25T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T04:08:00","slug":"iraq-and-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/iraq-and-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq and Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Pipes has a very short and interesting summary of the Pentagon&#8217;s report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielpipes.org\/article\/3545\">where those Iraqi WMDs were<\/a>.  He begins the essay this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The great mystery of the 2003 war in Iraq &#8211; &#8220;What about the WMD?&#8221; has finally  been resolved. The short answer is: Saddam Hussein&#8217;s persistent record of lying  meant no one believed him when he at the last moment actually removed the  weapons of mass destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elsewhere, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1145961224803&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">Jerusalem Post<\/a> reports on Iran&#8217;s readiness to transfer nuclear technology.  If this isn&#8217;t enough to get somebody to do something, then nothing is, and I&#8217;m ready to write a history of the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>On a happier note, Katie is 2 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Pipes has a very short and interesting summary of the Pentagon&#8217;s report on where those Iraqi WMDs were. He begins the essay this way: The great mystery of the 2003 war in Iraq &#8211; &#8220;What about the WMD?&#8221; has finally been resolved. The short answer is: Saddam Hussein&#8217;s persistent record of lying meant no\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/iraq-and-iran\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}