{"id":139,"date":"2009-12-09T01:50:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-12-09T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T00:51:50","slug":"captain-scarlet-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/2009\/12\/captain-scarlet-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Captain&#8217; Scarlet explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_140\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140\" src=\"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/scarlett.jpg\" alt=\"Scarlett explains\" title=\"John Scarlett\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/scarlett.jpg 450w, http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/scarlett-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scarlett explains<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So apparently the claim in the September 2002 dossier that Iraq could use WMD within 45 minutes of Saddam&#8217;s order <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There was absolutely no conscious intention to manipulate the language or to obfuscate or to create a misunderstanding as to what this might refer to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>besides <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/8401473.stm\">as everyone now knows<\/a> the claim was made by an <strike>unimpeachable source<\/strike> <strike>Mysteron Agent<\/strike> taxi cab driver #007-THRUSH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently the claim in the September 2002 dossier that Iraq could use WMD within 45 minutes of Saddam&#8217;s order &#8220;There was absolutely no conscious intention to manipulate the language or to obfuscate or to create a misunderstanding as to what this might refer to.&#8221; besides as everyone now knows the claim was made by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,38,44,40,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign","category-government","category-politics","category-surveillance","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spark-in-the-ashes.net\/warr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}