{"id":1187,"date":"2007-04-28T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/28\/er\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T14:09:58","slug":"er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/28\/er\/","title":{"rendered":"er&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/28\/books\/28kaku.html?_r=1&#038;8dpc&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> An Ex-C.I.A. Chief on Iraq and the Slam Dunk That Wasn&rsquo;t<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">In fact, Mr. Tenet says he doubts that W.M.D.&rsquo;s were the principal cause of the United States&rsquo; decision to go to war in Iraq in the first place, that it was just &ldquo;the public face that was put on it.&rdquo; The real reason, he suggests, stemmed from &ldquo;the administration&rsquo;s largely unarticulated view that the democratic transformation of the Middle East through regime change in Iraq would be worth the price.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Well, Mr. Tenet, you might ought to mention the other &quot;largely unarticulated&quot; motive for a &quot;democratic transformation of the Middle East through regime change in Iraq&quot; &#8211; or &quot;worth the price&quot; to whom.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/oil_well_animation.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ex-C.I.A. Chief on Iraq and the Slam Dunk That Wasn&rsquo;t In fact, Mr. Tenet says he doubts that W.M.D.&rsquo;s were the principal cause of the United States&rsquo; decision to go to war in Iraq in the first place, that it was just &ldquo;the public face that was put on it.&rdquo; The real reason, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}