{"id":1550,"date":"2004-02-24T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/24\/blinded_by_the_\/"},"modified":"2004-02-24T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T02:20:00","slug":"blinded_by_the_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/24\/blinded_by_the_\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinded by the Right, Wrapped Up Like a Dunce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3449870\/ \">Eric Alterman<\/a> for picking up this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2004%2F02%2F19%2Fwirq19.xml&#038;secureRefresh=true&#038;_requestid=115921\">piece<\/a> from The Telegraph.  It portrays Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who apparently provided much of the Iraq pre-war intelligence, as unrepentant about his fabrications that help Cheney &#038; Company decide to go to war.  (Editors Note:  I refer to Cheney &#038; Co. because saying Bush &#038; Co. would imply that Dubya was actually making the decision.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Eric Alterman for picking up this piece from The Telegraph. It portrays Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who apparently provided much of the Iraq pre-war intelligence, as unrepentant about his fabrications that help Cheney &#038; Company decide to go to war. (Editors Note: I refer to Cheney &#038; Co. because saying Bush &#038;&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/24\/blinded_by_the_\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}