{"id":196467,"date":"2008-04-24T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/us-claims-dprk-syria-nuclear-ties\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T21:31:00","slug":"us-claims-dprk-syria-nuclear-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/us-claims-dprk-syria-nuclear-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"US Claims DPRK-Syria Nuclear Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds familiar *Cough*  Iraq *Cough*?  Don&#8217;t worry, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/23\/AR2008042302906.html?hpid=topnews\">video taped evidence<\/a>, so there can be no question that&#8230;what????<\/p>\n<p>Oh, we don&#8217;t have a video tape.  We have a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080424\/pl_afp\/nkoreanuclearweaponsussyria_080424160919\">video presentation of a PowerPoint presentation<\/a>, so what we have is something that is very close to Colin Powell&#8217;s infamous UN presentation (full disclosure, I know people who were involved int he technical end of the production):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A US official, requesting anonymity, told AFP: &#8220;There are still photographs of the facility as part of the video, but it&#8217;s a video presentation, like a Powerpoint presentation. It&#8217;s not a video of the facility.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just to remind everyone, we have no credibility on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha yesterday angrily denounced the U.S. and Israeli assertions. &#8216;If they show a video, remember that the U.S. went to the U.N. Security Council and displayed evidence and images about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I hope the American people will not be as gullible this time around,&#8217; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From your mouth to God&#8217;s ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds familiar *Cough* Iraq *Cough*? Don&#8217;t worry, we have video taped evidence, so there can be no question that&#8230;what???? Oh, we don&#8217;t have a video tape. We have a video presentation of a PowerPoint presentation, so what we have is something that is very close to Colin Powell&#8217;s infamous UN presentation (full disclosure, I know &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155,1102,986,1044,1042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dprk","category-intelligence","category-middle-east","category-nuclear-weapons","category-proliferation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196467"}],"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=196467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}