{"id":198829,"date":"2007-10-07T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/a-perfect-metaphor-for-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T19:07:00","slug":"a-perfect-metaphor-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/a-perfect-metaphor-for-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Metaphor for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the US embassy in Baghdad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/20277.html\">nothing works, not even the fire sprinkler system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, constructed by forced labor by bush cronies, and they did not follow the drawings?<\/p>\n<p>To quote Claude Rains<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rick:<\/span> How can you close me up? On what grounds?<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Captain Renault:<\/span> I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!<br \/>[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Croupier:<\/span> Your winnings, sir.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Captain Renault:<\/span> [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.<br \/>[aloud]<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Captain Renault:<\/span> Everybody out at once! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the US embassy in Baghdad, nothing works, not even the fire sprinkler system. Let&#8217;s see, constructed by forced labor by bush cronies, and they did not follow the drawings? To quote Claude Rains Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?Captain Renault: I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198829"}],"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=198829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}