{"id":15269,"date":"2012-04-02T18:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2012-04-02T18:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T22:37:53","slug":"jail-this-asshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15269","title":{"rendered":"Jail This Asshole"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/politics\/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html\">\u201cCurveball\u201d, the Iraqi defector<\/a> who fabricated claims about Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi\u2019s lies used to justify the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>He tries to defend his actions: \u201cMy main purpose was to topple the tyrant in Iraq because the longer this dictator remains in power, the more the Iraqi people will suffer from this regime\u2019s oppression.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'm proud to say I never fell for it. But, my take on the whole thing - that it was all bullshit - seemed far less common then than it does today. 2002 was a lonely time for doubters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2012\/04\/02\/it-was-all-a-lie\/\">href<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCurveball\u201d, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq\u2019s weapons of mass destruction, smiles as he confirms how he made the whole thing up. It was a confidence trick that changed the course of history, with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi\u2019s lies used to justify the Iraq war. He tries to defend his actions: \u201cMy main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}