{"id":195054,"date":"2008-08-01T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/01\/mccains-brain-owned-by-achmed-chalabi\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:01:00","slug":"mccains-brain-owned-by-achmed-chalabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/01\/mccains-brain-owned-by-achmed-chalabi\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s Brain Owned by Achmed Chalabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s his chief foreign policy guy, Randy Scheunemann, who Achmed Chalabi, Iranian agent, corrupt banker, and general <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">con man<\/span> calls a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/07\/chalabi_spokesman_mccain_advis.php\">Close Friend<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/huffpost\/20080731\/cm_huffpost\/115983\">Lionel Beehner puts it<\/a>, &#8220;What puzzles me is his long and distinguished r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of being wrong on pretty much every major foreign policy issue of our time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s his chief foreign policy guy, Randy Scheunemann, who Achmed Chalabi, Iranian agent, corrupt banker, and general con man calls a &#8220;Close Friend.&#8221; As Lionel Beehner puts it, &#8220;What puzzles me is his long and distinguished r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of being wrong on pretty much every major foreign policy issue of our time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,964,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195054"}],"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=195054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}