{"id":494,"date":"2006-07-07T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T23:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=494"},"modified":"2006-07-07T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T23:36:57","slug":"shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"Shameful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a rash of documentation discovered in recent days showing that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s weapons programs were alive and well until 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Now Captain&#8217;s Quarters discusses a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/007421.php\">document<\/a> that shows that not only was weapons system development ongoing, but UNMOVIC (the UN monitoring group) and the UN Security Council <i>were aware of it all along<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This lends further credence to the idea that the low-balling of the WMD programs was simply a concession made for France, Germany, Russia and China to save face.  And allow left-wing moonbats to froth at the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Can you say &#8220;rope-a-dope&#8221;?  On a scale of <i>years<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a rash of documentation discovered in recent days showing that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s weapons programs were alive and well until 2003. Now Captain&#8217;s Quarters discusses a document that shows that not only was weapons system development ongoing, but UNMOVIC (the UN monitoring group) and the UN Security Council were aware of it all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shameful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}