{"id":343,"date":"2003-12-18T02:05:48","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T07:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/coming_clean_with_history\/"},"modified":"2003-12-18T02:05:48","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T07:05:48","slug":"coming_clean_with_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/coming_clean_with_history\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Clean with History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin at Lean Left has a good post asking if Defense Secretary Rumsfeld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leanleft.com\/archives\/002072.html\">should be considered an unindicted co-conspirator<\/a> for Saddam&#8217;s use of banned weapons.  Evidence suggests Rumsfeld was at least complicit in Iraq&#8217;s use of chemical weapons against Iran, and he may have indirectly provided assistance to the dictator.<br \/>\nOf course this won&#8217;t happen because the U.S. government runs the show.  But wouldn&#8217;t it be funny if there was some sort of full disclosure law which require government officials to reveal their past dealings in televised appearances?<br \/>\nYou know how financial analysts on T.V. are supposed to reveal if they have any interest in a company when they recommend its stock?  It would be classic if every time Rumsfeld talked about how evil Saddam was, he had to disclose his Reagan-era dealings in Baghdad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Saddam&#8217;s evil regime, which this government supported in the mid-80&#8217;s, murdered thousands of innocent people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just goes to show that today&#8217;s political expediency may not turn out so great tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/coming_clean_with_history\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Coming Clean with History\"><p>Kevin at Lean Left has a good post asking if Defense Secretary Rumsfeld should be considered an unindicted co-conspirator for Saddam&#8217;s use of banned weapons. Evidence suggests Rumsfeld was at least complicit in Iraq&#8217;s use of chemical weapons against Iran, and he may have indirectly provided assistance to the dictator. Of course this won&#8217;t happen [&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-343","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\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}