{"id":3239,"date":"2009-06-18T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2009-06-18T18:09:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:09:16","slug":"cheney-and-bolton-were-wrong-as-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/18\/cheney-and-bolton-were-wrong-as-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"cheney and bolton were wrong as rain…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tehran:<\/div>\n

I don’t know what it all means. I’m not even sure they know. But I know that it feels like a very good thing for the future of the world. A year ago, our government was trying to find any excuse possible to bomb Iran. But they’d already used up all of their currency invading Iraq, and just couldn’t find a viable excuse to start yet another war. The only way to deal with Iran was by a show of force – [former] Vice President Cheney and [former][faux] U.N. Ambassador John Bolton told us. Now we’re watching the Iranians march in the streets. We don’t know enough about them to even know why they’re marching, and yet I find myself tearing up a bit when I see the pictures.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of a time, a long time ago [late 80’s]. It was before we know about the "Internet." I was on Compuserve, a dial-up bulletin board that was text only on my slower than turtles modem showing on my green-screen DOS Computer. At the time, I was writing a program in DBASE and I used a compiler called "Clipper." I signed onto Clipper’s bulletin Board to get some help, and there were a bunch of messages from a Clipper guy in Moscow. As I sat there, he was in a store front typing fast and furious.ly There were Tanks in the street. Communism was falling, and I stayed up all night reading his posts about the Tanks, and the opposition leaders standing in front of them. It was amazing! History live…<\/p>\n

Now, coming out of secretive Iran, we have twitters and cell phone pictures. They’re trying to block stuff and it just keeps coming. I don’t know what’s happening there, and I don’t know where it’s headed, but I know that those hoardes of people want us to see them standing up and fighting for what they believe in. And I know that it’s going to be a good thing in the long run. And I know Cheney and Bolton were wrong as rain…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what it all means. I’m not even sure they know. But I know that it feels like a very good thing for the future of the world. A year ago, our government was trying to find any excuse possible to bomb Iran. But they’d already used up all of their currency invading […]<\/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-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}