{"id":1360,"date":"2003-03-11T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-11T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2003-03-11T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-11T21:42:00","slug":"gulf-of-tonkin-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/11\/17\/42\/gulf-of-tonkin-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Of Tonkin Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out that after careful analysis, some of the &#8220;evidence&#8221; supplied by the US and the UK that Iraq has been pursuing a nuclear program is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A59403-2003Mar7.html\">fake<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20030308.wxnuke0308\/BNStory\/International\">Did the CIA forge them<\/a>, and badly? It seems even below their usual level, and also contradicts their own intelligence estimates of Iraq&#8217;s nuclear program, now presumed by most to have been in stasis since 1991. There seems to be an Italian, or possibly Romanian, conduit for these documents, and I suspect some Middle Eastern influence: either Chalabi or elements within Israel. Couple these with the &#8220;authoritative&#8221; UK report <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/2735031.stm\">written 12 years ago by a student<\/a>, and I begin to wonder how much else of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/06\/international\/middleeast\/06PTEX.html?ex=1045198800&#038;en=7574a996d8a21ddc&#038;ei=5062&#038;partner=GOOGLE\">what they say<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A18467-2003Feb28.html\">crap<\/a>. It seems that only the criminally mendacious ineptitude of the Bush Gang can make a murderous thug like Saddam look good. He should hire them as his full-time PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out that after careful analysis, some of the &#8220;evidence&#8221; supplied by the US and the UK that Iraq has been pursuing a nuclear program is fake. Did the CIA forge them,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}