{"id":2701,"date":"2003-03-20T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2003-03-20T17:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/20\/saddams-games\/"},"modified":"2003-03-20T22:56:42","modified_gmt":"2003-03-20T17:26:42","slug":"saddams-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200303\/saddams-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam&#8217;s games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had promised <a hr?f=\"http:\/\/asymptotes.blogspot.com\">Swami<\/a>   a while back that I&#8217;d give proof of how Saddam has been  playing a game of deception.  <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/iraq\/story\/0,12956,916790,00.html\">Tony Blair<\/a> laid it out very well in his speech to the House of Commons. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A9657-2003Jan18?language=printer\">Here<\/a> is some more evidence.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I watched Blair&#8217;s speech on BBC. He is everything that Bush isn&#8217;t. He is intelligent where Bush is dumb. He is articulate where Bush is tongue-tied. The amount of irony he could infuse into the phrase &#8220;full and final declaration&#8221; (of Saddam&#8217;s weapons) had to be heard to be believed. <br \/>Those who oppose the war because Bush is dumb should, in the interest of consistency, support it because Blair is smart. Though I must agree that it  would be a strange sort of consistency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had promised Swami a while back that I&#8217;d give proof of how Saddam has been playing a game of deception. Tony Blair laid it out very well in his speech to the House of Commons. Here is some more evidence. By the way, I watched Blair&#8217;s speech on BBC. He is everything that Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}