{"id":1545,"date":"2003-08-01T05:04:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T19:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/01\/too-americanized\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:34:09","slug":"too-americanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/01\/too-americanized\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Americanized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13914,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.safesearching.com\\\/billmaher\\\/blog&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312153043\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.safesearching.com\\\/billmaher\\\/blog&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:12:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 00:40:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 00:40:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they&#8217;re too Americanized.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safesearching.com\/billmaher\/blog\/\" title=\"Bill Maher Weblog\">Bill Maher<\/a> (No permalink, July 29^th^ entry)<\/p>\n<p>It looks to me like Bill&#8217;s weblog is using MovableType. Who can we contact to at least get him (or his webmaster) to turn on permalinks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqi%u2019s have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they%u2019re too Americanized.<\/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-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}