{"id":1655,"date":"2003-08-25T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/another-lie\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:29:32","slug":"another-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/another-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Another lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13660,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/national\\\/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&amp;slug=Iraq%20Aerial%20Weapons&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060525071425\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com:80\\\/national\\\/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:36:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:36:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13661,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_08_24.html#000991&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140822211234\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com:80\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_08_24.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:36:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 16:24:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 16:24:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&amp;slug=Iraq%20Aerial%20Weapons\" title=\"Seattle P-I: Analysts doubt U.S. claim on Iraqi drones\">Analysts doubt U.S. claim on Iraqi drones<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Huddled over a fleet of abandoned Iraqi drones, U.S. weapons experts in Baghdad came to one conclusion: Despite the Bush administration&#8217;s public assertions, these unmanned aerial vehicles weren&#8217;t designed to dispense biological or chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  The unproven U.S. assertion regarding Iraq&#8217;s UAV programs is one among many.<\/p>\n<p>  American weapons hunters, like their U.N. counterparts, haven&#8217;t reported finding any chemical, biological weapons or nuclear weapons in Iraq so far.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this kind of thing surprise anyone anymore? If so &#8212; <em>why<\/em>? How can people keep fooling themselves into believing that Bush and his team did anything <em>but<\/em> lie to us for their own gain?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_08_24.html#000991\" title=\"Bush falsehood #47 -- collect 'em all!\">Bob Harris<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Bush administration&#8217;s public assertions, these unmanned aerial vehicles weren&#8217;t designed to dispense biological or 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":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}