{"id":1092,"date":"2004-07-20T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/blair-cant-count-either\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:23:48","slug":"blair-cant-count-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/blair-cant-count-either\/","title":{"rendered":"blair can&#8217;t count either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it seems that tony blair has is own troubles with math&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/story\/0, 6903, 1263830,00.html\">\t PM admits graves claim &#8216;untrue&#8217;<\/a> [the observer, july 18, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that &#8216;400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves&#8217; is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq&#8217;s mass graves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the_bush_administrations_difficulty_with_counting.html\">this<\/a> goes some distances toward explaining the special relationship between the united states and united kingdom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it seems that tony blair has is own troubles with math&#8230;. PM admits graves claim &#8216;untrue&#8217; [the observer, july 18, 2004] Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that &#8216;400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves&#8217; is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}