{"id":593,"date":"2004-02-06T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T23:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/06\/no-comment\/"},"modified":"2004-02-06T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T23:15:44","slug":"no-comment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"No comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/001277.html\">Crooked Timber post, by John Quiggin<\/a>, must be quoted in full:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">In the middle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4125720\/\">a generally reasonable Newsweek article about the failure to find WMDs<\/a>, I came across the following para<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But if Saddam didn&#8217;t have weapons of mass destruction, why didn&#8217;t he come clean? After all, he could have given U.N. inspectors free rein; he could have allowed them to interview all of his scientists in private\u2014even outside the country\u2014and let them rummage through his palaces. Faced with war, wasn&#8217;t that the sensible option?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, but &#8230;(lapses into stunned silence)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=purchase-viagra-on-the-internet\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Crooked Timber post, by John Quiggin, must be quoted in full: In the middle of a generally reasonable Newsweek article about the failure to find WMDs, I came across the following para But if Saddam didn&#8217;t have weapons of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=593\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}