{"id":1679,"date":"2008-03-17T04:03:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-03-17T04:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T04:04:02","slug":"um_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Um, not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the airport, watching Rick Sanchez on CNN as he pounds home the issue that the Pentagon report on Saddam and terrorism &#8216;puts to rest the original justification for the war&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Um, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/014\/889pvpxc.asp\" target=\"browser\">not quite<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This ought to be big news. Throughout the early and mid-1990s, Saddam Hussein actively supported an influential terrorist group headed by the man who is now al Qaeda&#8217;s second-in-command, according to an exhaustive study issued last week by the Pentagon. &#8220;Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden&#8217;s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al Qaeda&#8217;s stated goals and objectives.&#8221; According to the Pentagon study, Egyptian Islamic Jihad was one of many jihadist groups that Iraq&#8217;s former dictator funded, trained, equipped, and armed.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can imagine that there are political rationales for not taking this falsehood on. But this does show the basically supine posiiton the Bush adminsitation has been taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN vs. the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}