{"id":1515,"date":"2005-01-12T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/not-even-lying-trying-anymore\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T18:17:12","slug":"not-even-lying-trying-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/not-even-lying-trying-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Even <strike>Lying<\/strike> Trying Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CNN.com - Official: U.S. ends search for WMD in Iraq - Jan 12, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/12\/wmd.search\/index.html\">CNN.com &#8211; Official: U.S. ends search for WMD in Iraq &#8211; Jan 12, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. inspectors have ended their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in recent weeks, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The search ended almost two years after President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, citing concerns that Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction and may have hidden weapons stockpiles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forget about WMDs (and the lies and errors). Now we are on to the <i>real crisis<\/i> of Social Security! mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Compare and Contrast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoorman.net\/archives\/003654.html\">The Poor Man: Compare and Contrast<\/a><br \/>\nRathergate vs. Saddam&#8217;s WMD &#8211; A Quantitative Comparison<\/p>\n<p>[including]<br \/>\nCost to American taxpayer\t$0.00\tvs ~$150,000,000,000 (as of 1\/12\/05)<br \/>\nNumber of American soldiers killed as a result\t0\t vs 1,357 (as of 1\/12\/05)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com &#8211; Official: U.S. ends search for WMD in Iraq &#8211; Jan 12, 2005 U.S. inspectors have ended their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in recent weeks, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN. The search ended almost two years after President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, citing concerns that Saddam Hussein &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/not-even-lying-trying-anymore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Even <strike>Lying<\/strike> Trying Anymore<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}