{"id":939,"date":"2004-05-21T03:12:11","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T07:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/heroes_in_error\/"},"modified":"2004-05-21T03:12:11","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T07:12:11","slug":"heroes_in_error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/heroes_in_error\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Heroes in Error&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to get a grasp on the latest Ahmed Chalabi saga.  This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A43775-2004May20.html\">Robin Wright piece<\/a> reads like an obituary, but the TV shot of the busted Chalabi picture in yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;raid&#8221; seemed a bit photo-optish to me.<br \/>\nAnyway, you gotta love one of Chalabi&#8217;s classics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are heroes in error,&#8221; he told the <i>Daily Telegraph of London<\/i> in February. &#8220;As far as we&#8217;re concerned, we&#8217;ve been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great line.  With material like that, Chalabi he can always hook up with a talk radio slot at WGOP if all else fails for him.  He&#8217;d fit right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/heroes_in_error\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Heroes in Error&#8221;\"><p>It&#8217;s hard to get a grasp on the latest Ahmed Chalabi saga. This Robin Wright piece reads like an obituary, but the TV shot of the busted Chalabi picture in yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;raid&#8221; seemed a bit photo-optish to me. Anyway, you gotta love one of Chalabi&#8217;s classics: &#8220;We are heroes in error,&#8221; he told the Daily [&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-939","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\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}