{"id":1472,"date":"2006-08-14T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2006-08-14T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T08:01:08","slug":"2006-8-14-bombed-again-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"Bombed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">According to a reader familiar with <em>New Yorker<\/em> magazine, Seymour Hersh and his nameless friends are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/060821fa_fact\">at it again<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n<p>If what Hersh reports being told by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a Middle East expert with knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd is correct, we have further evidence (like we needed it) of the crowded confusion that occupies Bush Jr.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oval cuckoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nest. According to this expert, the invasion of Lebanon was a plan cooked up collaboratively with the White House, and one of the goals was to make the Lebanese government stronger.<\/p>\n<p>The best laugh, however, comes from a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153U.S. consultant with close ties to Israel\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd who says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Israelis told us it would be a cheap war with many benefits \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It would be a demo for [an American strike on] Iran.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/060417fa_fact\">Back in April <\/a>Hersh wheeled the same anonymous cast on stage to assert that Cheney <em>et al<\/em> are forging ahead with plans bomb Iran back to the stone age, with nukes if at all possible. Hard to know what any of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth when you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saying it, but a pleasant bit of echo-chamber reading for the pessimistic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">According to a reader familiar with <em>New Yorker<\/em> magazine, Seymour Hersh and his nameless friends are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/060821fa_fact\">at it again<\/a> this month.<br \/>\nIf what Hersh reports being told by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a Middle East expert with knowledge\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd is correct, we have further evidence (like we needed it) of the crowded confusion that occupies Bush Jr.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oval cuckoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nest. According to this expert, the invasion of Lebanon was a plan cooked up collaboratively with the White House, and one of the goals was to make the Lebanese government stronger.<br \/>\nThe best laugh, however, comes from a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153U.S. consultant with close ties to Israel\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd who says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Israelis told us it would be a cheap war with many benefits \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It would be a demo for [an American strike on] Iran.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/articles\/060417fa_fact\">Back in April <\/a>Hersh wheeled the same anonymous cast on stage to assert that Cheney <em>et al<\/em> are forging ahead with plans bomb Iran back to the stone age, with nukes if at all possible. Hard to know what any of it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth when you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saying it, but a pleasant bit of echo-chamber reading for the pessimistic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,30,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}