{"id":603,"date":"2004-02-08T16:25:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-08T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/blix_bush_a_cheap_salesman\/"},"modified":"2004-02-08T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2004-02-08T21:25:58","slug":"blix_bush_a_cheap_salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/blix_bush_a_cheap_salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Blix: Bush A Cheap Salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=574&#038;ncid=721&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20040208\/wl_nm\/iraq_blix_dc\">Well said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Hans Blix &#8212; who pleaded for more time to search Iraq for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons before a U.S.-led invasion in March &#8212; said the West had a right to expect more from their leaders.<br \/>\n&#8220;The intention was to dramatize it (the intelligence) just as the vendors of some merchandise are trying to exaggerate the importance of what they have,&#8221; Blix told BBC television.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;From politicians, our leaders in the Western world, I think we expect more than that, a bit more sincerity,&#8221; Blix said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Expect more?  From the master of low expectations?  Why change now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/blix_bush_a_cheap_salesman\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Blix: Bush A Cheap Salesman\"><p>Well said: Hans Blix &#8212; who pleaded for more time to search Iraq for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons before a U.S.-led invasion in March &#8212; said the West had a right to expect more from their leaders. &#8220;The intention was to dramatize it (the intelligence) just as the vendors of some merchandise are trying [&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-603","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\/603","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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}