{"id":43131,"date":"2014-06-19T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/fool-me-twice-shame-on-me.html"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T21:04:06","slug":"fool-me-twice-shame-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/19\/fool-me-twice-shame-on-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Fool me twice, shame on me"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's been truly remarkable watching the folks that got us into Iraq flustercluck in the first place — the pundits and the politicians — tromping eagerly in front of the cameras again to declare that (a) it was all an amazing success, until (b) Obama abandoned Iraq, so (c) we better send bombers, if not troops, over there as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

And they're doing it with a smile, too.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wolfowitz’s Noble Lies<\/a>
\n I tend not to hold the somewhat conspiratorial view that followers of Leo Strauss, the guru of the neocon intelligentsia, actively believe in deceiving the American people in the pursuit of statecr…\n <\/p>\n

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It's been truly remarkable watching the folks that got us into Iraq flustercluck in the first place — the pundits and the politicians — tromping eagerly in front of the cameras again to declare that (a) it was all an amazing success, until (b) Obama abandoned Iraq, so (c) we better send bombers, if not … Continue reading “Fool me twice, shame on me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51469,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/15\/rt-lolgop-jeb-bush-my-father-invaded-iraq-too-little.html","url_meta":{"origin":43131,"position":0},"title":"RT @LOLGOP Jeb Bush: My father invaded Iraq too little","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Jun-15 3:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @LOLGOP Jeb Bush: My father invaded Iraq too little My brother invaded Iraq too much. 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