{"id":1958,"date":"2005-05-08T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T20:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/no-really-we-made-the-whole-thing-up\/"},"modified":"2005-05-08T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2005-05-08T20:36:32","slug":"no-really-we-made-the-whole-thing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/no-really-we-made-the-whole-thing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"no, really.  we made the whole thing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>seems the bush administration asked the blair administration to come up with some justification (any justification) for a war in iraq.  and they knew they had a weak case going in.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/vote_2005\/frontpage\/4503061.stm\"> Blair plays down new Iraq claims<\/a> [bbc,  2005.05.01]<\/div>\n<p>The Sunday Times has published what it says is a leaked memo dated 23 July 2002 by Matthew Rycroft,  a former Downing Street foreign policy aide.<\/p>\n<p>In the memo,  Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is quoted as saying US President George Bush had &#8220;made up his mind to take military action even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It adds: &#8220;Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would help with the legal justification for the use of force.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>well played, good man!  well played!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seems the bush administration asked the blair administration to come up with some justification (any justification) for a war in iraq. and they knew they had a weak case going in. Blair plays down new Iraq claims [bbc, 2005.05.01] The Sunday Times has published what it says is a leaked memo dated 23 July 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}