{"id":4262,"date":"2010-07-27T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2010-07-27T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T19:22:38","slug":"hans-blix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/hans-blix-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Blix&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/blix.gif\" \/>I would recommend watching the testimony of Dr. Hans Blix all the way through. He&#8217;s an eminently sensible person who doesn&#8217;t get tangled up in details. I predicted last night that I might wince when he spoke of the American antics in this Iraqi debacle. I didn&#8217;t wince, and I thought he was as kind as he could be while making it very clear that we behaved very badly throughout the process. I did feel something I didn&#8217;t expect. As he was finishing, I realized that I was crying. The tears are still there as I type this. While I felt relief at finally hearing someone [with no ax to grind] matter of factly state how deceitful and catastrophic our actions have been, I think I was more poignantly aware of how much damage we&#8217;ve done to the world. But I think the tears were also grief at the thought that the America I have known all my life will never be seen the same way &#8211; not even by me. I&#8217;ll defer commenting fully on his testimony until the transcript is out this afternoon. I want to let it settle&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"332\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.iraqinquiry.org.uk\/media\/player.swf\"\/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.c.bowtietv.net\/IraqInquiry\/IraqInquiry-2010-07-27pm.flv.jwconfig&#038;plugins=gapro-1&#038;gapro.accountid=UA-6190457-15\"\/><\/object><br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.iraqinquiry.org.uk\/media\/player.swf\" width=\"332\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.cabinetoffice.c.bowtietv.net\/IraqInquiry\/IraqInquiry-2010-07-27pm.flv.jwconfig&#038;plugins=gapro-1&#038;gapro.accountid=UA-6190457-15\"\/><p><a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/flashplayer\">Get Flash<\/a> to see this player.<\/p><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would recommend watching the testimony of Dr. Hans Blix all the way through. He&#8217;s an eminently sensible person who doesn&#8217;t get tangled up in details. I predicted last night that I might wince when he spoke of the American antics in this Iraqi debacle. I didn&#8217;t wince, and I thought he was as kind [&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-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","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=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}