{"id":1627,"date":"2005-05-06T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/yep_we_already\/"},"modified":"2005-05-06T02:00:23","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T06:00:23","slug":"yep_we_already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/yep_we_already\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, We Already Knew That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2005_05\/006265.php\">sums up<\/a> the &#8220;revelations&#8221; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcities.com\/mld\/krwashington\/11574296.htm\">leaked British memo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the summer of 2002 George Bush had already decided on war regardless of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s actions; democracy promotion was not even mentioned in passing as a reason for the war; postwar reconstruction was an issue of no concern; and the &#8220;marketing campaign&#8221; for the war was deliberately timed to coincide with midterm elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only surprise here is that it surfaced in a government memo.<br \/>\nInteresting that I saw virtually nothing about this on TV news this week.  Too busy covering runaway bride, Jacko, and <i>American Idol<\/i> hanky panky, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/yep_we_already\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Yep, We Already Knew That\"><p>Kevin Drum, sums up the &#8220;revelations&#8221; from the leaked British memo: By the summer of 2002 George Bush had already decided on war regardless of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s actions; democracy promotion was not even mentioned in passing as a reason for the war; postwar reconstruction was an issue of no concern; and the &#8220;marketing campaign&#8221; for [&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-1627","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\/1627","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=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}