{"id":703,"date":"2004-02-29T23:43:37","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T04:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/new_american_century_letter\/"},"modified":"2004-02-29T23:43:37","modified_gmt":"2004-03-01T04:43:37","slug":"new_american_century_letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/new_american_century_letter\/","title":{"rendered":"New American Century Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new here, but it&#8217;s illuminating to take a look back at this 1998 Project for the New American Century <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamericancentury.org\/iraqclintonletter.htm\">letter to President Clinton on Iraq<\/a> which lays out the still-standing argument for removing Saddam Hussein (minus the post-9\/11 insertion of terrorism).  Take a look at who signed the letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elliott Abrams<br \/>\nRichard L. Armitage<br \/>\nWilliam J. Bennett<br \/>\nJeffrey Bergner<br \/>\nJohn Bolton<br \/>\nPaula Dobriansky<br \/>\nFrancis Fukuyama<br \/>\nRobert Kagan<br \/>\nZalmay Khalilzad<br \/>\nWilliam Kristol<br \/>\nRichard Perle<br \/>\nPeter W. Rodman<br \/>\nDonald Rumsfeld<br \/>\nWilliam Schneider, Jr.<br \/>\nVin Weber<br \/>\nPaul Wolfowitz<br \/>\nR. James Woolsey<br \/>\nRobert B. Zoellick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the influence these players currently weld both inside and outside the government, should it be any surprise our policy is what it is today?  And should there be any remaining question that this policy was crafted long before 9\/11?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/new_american_century_letter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to New American Century Letter\"><p>Nothing new here, but it&#8217;s illuminating to take a look back at this 1998 Project for the New American Century letter to President Clinton on Iraq which lays out the still-standing argument for removing Saddam Hussein (minus the post-9\/11 insertion of terrorism). Take a look at who signed the letter: Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage [&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-703","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\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}