{"id":1677,"date":"2003-08-07T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2003-08-07T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T01:38:00","slug":"i-said-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/08\/07\/21\/38\/i-said-what\/","title":{"rendered":"I Said What?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the invasion of Iraq, now says he doesn’t believe Iraq had anything to do with the September 11, 2001 flying bomb attacks<\/a> on New York and Washington. I think this is the start of a scorched earth policy before the next US Presidential election, with the Bush Gang floating a trial balloon. The last thing they want is months of ebbing and flowing calls to “Prove it!” concerning an Al Qaeda-Iraq link, so they’ve decided to see how a naked admission that this “link” was bogus will float. Wolfowitz is a useful straw man for this sort of thing — they used him a few months ago to put it about that the WMD “threat” was itself a bureaucratic smokescreen pretext<\/a> for the Iraq invasion.<\/p>\n

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

So Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the invasion of Iraq, now says he doesn’t believe Iraq had anything to do with the September 11, 2001 flying bomb attacks on New York and...<\/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-1677","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