{"id":1244,"date":"2004-10-25T03:59:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T07:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/missing_explosives\/"},"modified":"2004-10-25T03:59:52","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T07:59:52","slug":"missing_explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/missing_explosives\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me get this straight: We invade Iraq allegedly to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists.  U.N weapons inspectors, which had been monitoring an instillation filled with explosives, warn the U.S. about the danger of said explosives.  The U.S.-controlled coalition assumes responsibility for monitoring the military installation.  Now it comes out that <a title=\"Tracking the Weapons: Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/25\/international\/middleeast\/25bomb.html?ex=1256356800&#038;en=3bcf849cf3a68472&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">360,00 pounds of powerful explosives disappeared from the facility<\/a> months ago.  This &#8220;mishap&#8221; wasn&#8217;t publicly disclosed until the Iraqi government notified international inspectors.  And it&#8217;s &#8220;unclear&#8221; whether or not Bush knew about 380 tons of missing weapons?<br \/>\nWhat kind of circus do we have performing in Washington, anyway?<br \/>\nHonestly, how much more needs to happen for things to reach the tipping point so that even duped America will see through the smoke and realize what a sham this whole war-time leader myth is?  It&#8217;s become almost mind-numbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/missing_explosives\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Missing Explosives\"><p>Let me get this straight: We invade Iraq allegedly to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists. U.N weapons inspectors, which had been monitoring an instillation filled with explosives, warn the U.S. about the danger of said explosives. The U.S.-controlled coalition assumes responsibility for monitoring the military installation. Now it comes out that 360,00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}