{"id":1931,"date":"2004-04-16T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2004-04-16T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T15:25:00","slug":"chicken-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/04\/16\/11\/25\/chicken-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2004-04-15-rumsfeld-usat_x.htm\">Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that he never expected so many American troops to be dying at this point in the war in Iraq.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe, like his King, he makes a habit of refusing to read the analysis documents prepared for him?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1192218,00.html\">It seems highly unlikely that [Bush] read the national intelligence estimate on WMD before the Iraq war that consigned contrary evidence and caveats that undermined the case to footnotes and fine print. 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