{"id":13,"date":"2003-02-12T22:01:15","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T02:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-06-29T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T16:33:29","slug":"the-question-of-war-with-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"The question of war with Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This entry is primarily to get responses from people, so please use the comments link. I&#8217;m somewhat troubled by our rationale for going to war with Iraq. Perhaps it&#8217;s just that I don&#8217;t understand it. Are we fighting because they&#8217;ve violated U.N. security council resolutions? Are we fighting because they&#8217;re clever enough to be able to move any suspected weapons far enough underground or on vehicles such that U.N. weapons inspectors won&#8217;t find them?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why, since America has been reluctant to be the world&#8217;s policeman in such places like Kosovo and sub-Saharan Africa, we should be gung-ho to go to war with someone we know we could easily beat. &#8220;He may be developing chemical weapons.&#8221; Okay, he may well be, but most countries around the world have the knowledge and ability to produce the stuff, even the United States. I want to look past rhetoric and find real reasons for this war before I&#8217;ll support it.<\/p>\n<p>A funny album: Spoofernatural by Apologetix. Worth a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entry is primarily to get responses from people, so please use the comments link. I&#8217;m somewhat troubled by our rationale for going to war with Iraq. Perhaps it&#8217;s just that I don&#8217;t understand it. Are we fighting because they&#8217;ve violated U.N. security council resolutions? Are we fighting because they&#8217;re clever enough to be able &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The question of war with Iraq&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-floating-hostility","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}