{"id":1534,"date":"2007-09-06T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/06\/the-french\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T00:40:58","slug":"the-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/06\/the-french\/","title":{"rendered":"the French&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"113\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"122\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:pWzNWwahtOfbcM:http:\/\/www.emat-tucson.org\/France\/Pictures\/FranceFlag.gif\" \/>After Bush decided to invade Iraq, there was lots of joking about the French because they wouldn&#8217;t go along with our made-up Coalition. The jokes came from people in high places as well as circulating on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">They knew the Niger Documents were forged, and told us &#8211; told us many times. We now learn that they helped us &quot;turn&quot; the Iraq Foreign Minister &#8211; Naji Sabri. They even also paid him, if I read Blumenthal&#8217;s report correctly. They didn&#8217;t participate in the Iraq Invasion because they knew it was based on falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p>We owe the French an apology&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Bush decided to invade Iraq, there was lots of joking about the French because they wouldn&#8217;t go along with our made-up Coalition. The jokes came from people in high places as well as circulating on the Internet. They knew the Niger Documents were forged, and told us &#8211; told us many times. We now [&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-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}