{"id":1266,"date":"2002-02-04T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2002-02-04T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2002-02-04T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2002-02-04T13:59:01","slug":"the_axis_of_evi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/04\/the_axis_of_evi.html","title":{"rendered":"The Axis of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/satirewire.com\/news\/jan02\/axis.shtml\">SatireWire<\/a> discusses the way the countries excluded from the &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; are reacting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the &#8220;Axis of Evil,&#8221; Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the &#8220;Axis of Just as Evil,&#8221; which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address. <br \/>\nAxis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. &#8220;Right. 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