{"id":1805,"date":"2003-10-02T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T09:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/03\/and-this-is-a-surpise-towho\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:25:52","slug":"and-this-is-a-surpise-towho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/02\/and-this-is-a-surpise-towho\/","title":{"rendered":"And this is a surpise to&#8230;who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13193,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3550550&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13194,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2003\\\/10\\\/02\\\/politics\\\/02WEAP.html?ex=1066061158&amp;ei=1&amp;en=74e8edbbbcc9ede9&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;},{&quot;id&quot;:13195,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/004408.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/004408.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Remember all those weapons of mass destruction that Bush et al <em>assured<\/em> us were all over Iraq, just waiting to be found? Funny thing, that &#8212; apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3550550\" title=\"US-Led Team Says No WMD Stocks Found in Iraq\">they don&#8217;t exist after all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The U.S-led team hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found no stockpiles of biological or chemical weapons, six months after the United States launched a war against Baghdad to remove such a threat, CIA adviser David Kay said on Thursday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, imagine that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/02\/politics\/02WEAP.html?ex=1066061158&amp;ei=1&amp;en=74e8edbbbcc9ede9\" title=\"Officials Say Bush Seeks $600 Million to Hunt Iraq Arms\">Not that Bush cares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Bush administration is seeking more than \\$600 million from Congress to continue the hunt for conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government had an illegal weapons program, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>  The money, part of the White House&#8217;s request for \\$87 billion in supplemental spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, comes on top of at least \\$300 million that has already been spent on the weapons search, the officials said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, Georgie-boy? They&#8217;re not there. Let&#8217;s just take our toys and go home before the other kids really get sick of our stomping around in the sandbox and gang up on us. Nobody likes a bully.<\/p>\n<p>Shmuck.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/004408.html\" title=\"no WMDs in Iraq\">Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all those weapons of mass destruction that Bush et al assured us were all over Iraq, just waiting to be found? Funny thing, that &mdash; apparently, they don&#8217;t exist after all.<\/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-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}