{"id":191955,"date":"2009-06-01T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/01\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-22\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T01:16:00","slug":"signs-of-the-apocalypse-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/01\/signs-of-the-apocalypse-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bruce Cheney has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=a3vvPsCY8pYA\">admitted that he was wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Former Vice President Dick Cheney disavowed intelligence he once cited to suggest that then-Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein collaborated with al-Qaeda to stage the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney said today that information by the Central Intelligence Agency of collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaeda on Sept. 11 \u201cturned out not to be true.\u201d Still, Cheney said a longstanding relationship existed between Hussein and terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, that justified the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only is he admitting error, he is doing so on a signature issue.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue as to what is going on.  First, he embarks on his &#8220;human snarl tour,&#8221; in which he says that he is right about everything, and now he is backing off of his biggest lie.<\/p>\n<p>Either there are wheels within wheels beyond my understanding, or he&#8217;s throwing small strokes, and I cannot figure out which.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bruce Cheney has admitted that he was wrong: Former Vice President Dick Cheney disavowed intelligence he once cited to suggest that then-Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein collaborated with al-Qaeda to stage the Sept. 11 attacks. Cheney said today that information by the Central Intelligence Agency of collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaeda on Sept. 11 \u201cturned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203,969,1063,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-evil","category-iraq","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}