{"id":194858,"date":"2008-08-13T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/i-find-this-hard-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T04:04:00","slug":"i-find-this-hard-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/i-find-this-hard-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"I Find this Hard to Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1010938.html\">the US rejected an Israeli request for military equipmment to aid with a strike on Iran<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t buy it.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that I don&#8217;t buy it is because Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">want<\/span> to strike Iran, but if it&#8217;s an American strike, the political backlash is simply too uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration would <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">love<\/span> an Israeli strike.<\/p>\n<p>This is leaked information, coming either from the Bush administration, or the Olmert adminiatration.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s the former, it&#8217;s a way to ratchet up pressure on Iran, if it&#8217;s the latter, it&#8217;s a leak designed to boost Kadima&#8217;s chances in the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haaretz is reporting that the US rejected an Israeli request for military equipmment to aid with a strike on Iran, and I don&#8217;t buy it. The reason that I don&#8217;t buy it is because Bush and His Evil Minions&#8482; want to strike Iran, but if it&#8217;s an American strike, the political backlash is simply too &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,1159,986],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-israel","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194858"}],"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=194858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}