{"id":1314,"date":"2003-02-05T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2003-02-05T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T20:20:00","slug":"takes-one-to-know-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/02\/05\/16\/20\/takes-one-to-know-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Takes One To Know One"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve covered this before<\/a>, but one of the main reasons the Bush Gang is so convinced that they know what kind of nasty war stuff Iraq has is because they sold it to Iraq in the first place<\/a>, with Rumsfeld acting as main bagman. This report reminds us that one of the main reasons that Washington hijacked the initial UN report on Iraq was so that it could redact the information about which Western companies and organizations (mainly US-based but a fair sprinkling from across Europe as well) supplied Iraq with so many nasty bugs and gases. Of the original 12,000 pages, most of the countries on the UN Security Council (including the current President, Germany) received only 3,000 pages.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I note that as the drums of war are beating louder, the UN has taken the prudent step of covering their magnificent Guernica<\/a> reproduction with a shroud. Apparently it wouldn’t do at all to have various militaristic men talking enthusiastically about bombing civilian cities<\/a> “against a backdrop depicting images of women and children and animals crying with horror and showing the suffering of war<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve covered this before, but one of the main reasons the Bush Gang is so convinced that they know what kind of nasty war stuff Iraq has is because they sold it to Iraq...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t