{"id":1395,"date":"2005-01-12T02:33:25","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T07:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/moving_on_up\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T02:33:25","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T07:33:25","slug":"moving_on_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/moving_on_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving On Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Despite false claim, his star rises\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/011\/nation\/Despite_false_claim_his_star_rises .shtml\">A job well done<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man who insisted that President Bush make the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa is poised to assume a top State Department job that would make him the lead US arms negotiator with Iran and North Korea, according to administration officials.<br \/>\nRobert G. Joseph, a special assistant for national security to President Bush until a few months ago, is on the short list to become undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the nation&#8217;s senior diplomat in charge of negotiating arms control treaties, said the officials, who spoke on the condition they not be named.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a <a title=\"Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A2129-2005Jan11.html\">related story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nFour months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG&#8217;s final conclusions and will be published this spring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mission accomplished!  We took care of those weapons threatening America.  Good job, guys.  Promotions all around.  Never mind those stretchers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfopedia.org\/wiki.phtml?title=Transfer_tubes\">transfer tubes<\/a> returning from Iraq.  That&#8217;s a small price for achieving a war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/moving_on_up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Moving On Up\"><p>A job well done: The man who insisted that President Bush make the claim that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa is poised to assume a top State Department job that would make him the lead US arms negotiator with Iran and North Korea, according to administration officials. Robert G. Joseph, [&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-1395","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\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}