{"id":13,"date":"2003-07-04T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-04T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=13"},"modified":"2003-07-04T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2003-07-04T14:20:40","slug":"wagging-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Wagging the Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billmon <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/000315.html\">posted<\/a> his observation that U.S. and British authorities &#8216;coincidentally&#8217; issued statements that the Iraq intelligence presented to both govt.&#8217;s justified an attack.<\/p>\n<p>His comments section contains a post quoting a few of the right&#8217;s favorite Dem targets as if their opinions now matter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alarming, and I imagine embarrassing for them, that so many apologists are now willing to put aside their former theories that Clinton et. al were in fact &#8216;wagging the dog&#8217; because they hope it adds weight to their flimsy arguments that Bush &#038; Co. didn&#8217;t lie.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it make much more sense to conclude that both men did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billmon posted his observation that U.S. and British authorities &#8216;coincidentally&#8217; issued statements that the Iraq intelligence presented to both govt.&#8217;s justified an attack. His comments section contains a post quoting a few of the right&#8217;s favorite Dem targets as if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13\">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-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}