{"id":2875,"date":"2008-02-01T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2008-02-01T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T01:14:57","slug":"clintons-big-lie-from-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"Clinton&#8217;s Big Lie from Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 1, 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Hillary Clinton, Jan. 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:norman@accuracy.org\">NORMAN SOLOMON<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSolomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, is the author of <em>War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death<\/em>. He said today: &#8220;If facts matter, then it should matter that Hillary Clinton chose to rely on such a basic falsehood during the debate when she flatly stated: &#8216;We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors.&#8217; In fact, just prior to the Clinton administration&#8217;s several days of bombing Iraq in December 1998, the U.N.&#8217;s UNSCOM weapons inspectors left Iraq when UNSCOM head Richard Butler withdrew them &#8212; because the Clinton administration made it clear that the U.S. government was about to start bombing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=1641\">Read More<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1, 2008 &#8220;We bombed them for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors.&#8221; &#8212; Hillary Clinton, Jan. 31, 2008 NORMAN SOLOMON Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, is the author of War Made Easy: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2875\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}