{"id":104,"date":"2003-06-06T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:44","slug":"rooking_saddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Rooking Saddam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Den Beste has an <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2003\/06\/GettingRooked.shtml\" target=\"browser\">essay<\/a> up (I can&#8217;t bring myself to call them posts&#8230;) on Saddam&#8217;s WMD efforts that reinforces my point about WMD and bad management.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SDB: <i>&#8220;I just stumbled on a report that offers an interesting point which might help explain just what happened with the apparently-missing Iraqi WMDs: the ones they did have were actually mostly destroyed, and in their frantic attempts to acquire the materials necessary to produce new ones, they ended up tossing money around like a drunken sailor, and got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/World\/Iraq\/0,,2-10-1460_1369794,00.html\" target=\"browser\">ripped off<\/a>.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the rest. It goes a long way to answering my two <a href=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/archives\/003555.html#003555\" target=\"browser\">questions<\/a> on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SDB: <i>&#8220;I think that it isn&#8217;t that they voluntarily disarmed; it&#8217;s that they tried to acquire the stuff they needed to rebuild their stockpiles and got rooked, again and again.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That pretty neatly answers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/windsofchange.net\/archives\/003555.html\">AL:<\/a> <i>&#8220;&#8230;two things (both of which get trumped if they actually find the Secret Underground WMD Factories) &#8211; why Saddam would risk war to hide weapons he knew he didn&#8217;t have, and why Bush would risk lying about something so crucial, when it would be impossible for the lie not to get caught.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Steven Den Beste&#8217;s recent post, plus Armed Liberals post about &#8220;Why Missing WMD are Like Bad Software,&#8221; answer the question re: what happened to the WMD in Iraq? Maybe. Read this and see.<\/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":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}