{"id":198539,"date":"2007-10-31T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/31\/revealed-how-blair-rejected-bushs-offer-to-stay-independent-online-edition-world-politics\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T03:58:00","slug":"revealed-how-blair-rejected-bushs-offer-to-stay-independent-online-edition-world-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/31\/revealed-how-blair-rejected-bushs-offer-to-stay-independent-online-edition-world-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how Blair rejected Bush&#8217;s offer to stay &#8211; Independent Online Edition > World Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the Smiler<sup>*<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/politics\/article3112818.ece\">had an offer from <strike>his master<\/strike> George W. Bush to stay out of the war, but he rejected it<\/a>.  Apparently, he thought that it would look &#8220;pathetic&#8221;, as if being bush&#8217;s poodle was not already the height of pathos.<\/p>\n<p>At least Blair isn&#8217;t covered by American laws regarding the International Criminal Court in the Hague.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Tony Blair<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the Smiler* had an offer from his master George W. Bush to stay out of the war, but he rejected it. Apparently, he thought that it would look &#8220;pathetic&#8221;, as if being bush&#8217;s poodle was not already the height of pathos. At least Blair isn&#8217;t covered by American laws regarding the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1063,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-iraq","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198539"}],"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=198539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}