{"id":1279,"date":"2006-01-30T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2006-01-30T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:26:17","slug":"us-pulls-the-cover-off-the-democracy-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"U.S. pulls the cover off the democracy hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/news.asp?idnews=31965\">Gareth Porter<\/a> on how the U.S. has come out of the closet on its efforts to cripple the Shiite gov&#8217;t by backing the Sunni resistance.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are saying, if you choose the wrong candidates, that will affect U.S. aid,&#8221; Khalilzad said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military spokesman Rick Lynch declared, &#8220;The local insurgents have become part of the solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shi&#8217;ites, kiss democracy goodbye.  Say hello to your past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Porter on how the U.S. has come out of the closet on its efforts to cripple the Shiite gov&#8217;t by backing the Sunni resistance. &#8220;We are saying, if you choose the wrong candidates, that will affect U.S. aid,&#8221; Khalilzad &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1279\">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-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-kD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","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=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}