{"id":1105,"date":"2005-10-11T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2005-10-11T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T13:29:25","slug":"why-america-is-still-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"Why America is still in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mona Charen&#8217;s appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/VideoArchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&#038;ArchiveDays=100&#038;Page=1\">C-Span<\/a>&#8216;s 25 Years Viewer Call-Ins was the only bit of the 25-hour marathon I saw this weekend.  It was so revolting I ignored the rest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s abhorrent that the collective squibs in Congress aren&#8217;t pursuing a Bush\/Cheney investigation\/impeachment and because they are not, good soldiers-in-media like Miss Mona are allowed to dribble out the latest talking points buffeted by verbal fondling suggesting a moral delinquent is actually a credible compass.<\/p>\n<p>Who are these people?  Conspirators in the deceiving of America in order to pursue an illegal war who now cheerlead a brutal occupation; allowed to insist upon &#8220;staying the course&#8221; in Iraq without defining the specifics of that course.  Why do they have any credibility, in fact, more credibility than people who predicted this war&#8217;s outcome?<\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/canada\/national\/2000\/03\/02\/bushpoutine000302.html\">Americans<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejbdotcom.net\/content\/2916.html\">are the dumbest people on the planet<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/12.170.145.150\/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&#038;ArchiveDays=30\">Entifadh Qanbar was invited to C-Span<\/a> to explain to Americans why they should &#8220;stay the course&#8221; in Iraq and not once did the fawning host question him about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/issues\/2004\/4\/mccollam-list.asp?printerfriendly=yes\">the infamous memo<\/a> he presented to the United States Congress on behalf of his boss, Ahmad Chalabi. Why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mona Charen&#8217;s appearance on C-Span&#8216;s 25 Years Viewer Call-Ins was the only bit of the 25-hour marathon I saw this weekend. It was so revolting I ignored the rest. It&#8217;s abhorrent that the collective squibs in Congress aren&#8217;t pursuing a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-hP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}