{"id":34,"date":"2003-04-07T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T02:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-06-29T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T22:06:42","slug":"the-war-with-iraq-a-continuing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The war with Iraq: a continuing question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two questions:<\/p>\n<p>Number one:<br \/>\nWhere&#8217;s Osama bin Laden? Remember him? The guy actually behind the 9-11 strikes?<\/p>\n<p>Number two:<br \/>\nIs anyone else as skeptical as I am of the rush to label any drum of chemicals &#8220;possible weapons of mass destruction&#8221;? We&#8217;re not looking for smoking guns. We&#8217;re looking for justifications for what we&#8217;ve done. We have the 21st century Salem Witch Trials going on, all on live TV. I have MSNBC on in the background, and they&#8217;re reporting that Saddam and his sons may be dead. Well, let&#8217;s face it: there&#8217;s a 50 percent chance they&#8217;re right. If no such chemical weapons, or nuke-u-ler weapons, or anything of the sort is found, what will it mean for the U.S.&#8217;s role in the post-conflict world?<\/p>\n<p>Give me a reason why this war had to happen, and I&#8217;ll be satisfied (and saddened). But I haven&#8217;t seen anything like it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two questions: Number one: Where&#8217;s Osama bin Laden? Remember him? The guy actually behind the 9-11 strikes? Number two: Is anyone else as skeptical as I am of the rush to label any drum of chemicals &#8220;possible weapons of mass destruction&#8221;? We&#8217;re not looking for smoking guns. We&#8217;re looking for justifications for what we&#8217;ve done. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The war with Iraq: a continuing question&#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-34","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\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}