{"id":1262,"date":"2003-06-05T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/05\/could-be\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:35:29","slug":"could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/05\/could-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Could be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14472,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/dna\\\/h2g2\\\/classic\\\/A795611&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>All of this blather coming from Bush trying to justify the invasion of Iraq with the (two? three?) trailers that have been found is driving me up the wall. I keep seeing various news reports trumpeting that we found these two trailers that &#8220;could be used to produce chemical weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, really?<\/p>\n<p>Look &#8212; give me a few gallons of bleach and a few gallons of ammonia, and my bathtub <em>could be<\/em> used to produce chemical weapons (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/classic\/A795611\" title=\"The dangers of mixing bleach and ammonia\">depending on the mix<\/a>, Chlorine Gas, Nitrogen Trichloride, or Hydrazine can be produced, none of which are particularly friendly). You&#8217;re faltering, Bush, and the world knows it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look &mdash; give me a few gallons of bleach and a few gallons of ammonia, and my bathtub <em>could be<\/em> used to produce chemical weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}