{"id":22,"date":"2007-08-26T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/22"},"modified":"2007-08-26T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T21:01:20","slug":"politics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2007\/08\/26\/politics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/16076312\/the_great_iraq_swindle\">Matt Taibbi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The room twitters in amazement. It&#8217;s hard not to applaud the balls of a man who walks into Congress short $72 million in taxpayer money and offers to guess where it all might have gone\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>A year later, Iraq is still in flames, and your president&#8217;s administration is safely focused on reclaiming $485 million in aid money from a bunch of toothless black survivors of Hurricane Katrina\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam \u00adHussein&#8217;s Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This is the triumphant culmination of two centuries of flawed white-people thinking, a preposterous mix of authoritarian socialism and laissez-faire profit\u00adeering, with all the worst aspects of both ideologies rolled up into one pointless, supremely idiotic military adventure&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi: The room twitters in amazement. It&#8217;s hard not to applaud the balls of a man who walks into Congress short $72 million in taxpayer money and offers to guess where it all might have gone\u2026 A year later, Iraq is still in flames, and your president&#8217;s administration is safely focused on reclaiming $485&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}