{"id":13413,"date":"2013-02-16T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T01:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2013-02-16T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T01:36:07","slug":"hubris-new-documentary-reexamines-the-iraq-war-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/02\/16\/hubris-new-documentary-reexamines-the-iraq-war-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hubris&#8221;: New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War &#8220;Hoax&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mother Jones<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Mother Jones Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2013\/02\/hubris-rachel-maddow-documentary-iraq-war-david-corn\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Hubris&#8221;: New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War &#8220;Hoax&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe film highlights a Pentagon document declassified two years ago. This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB326\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>memo<\/strong><\/a> notes that in November 2001\u2014shortly after the 9\/11 attacks\u2014Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with General Tommy Franks to review plans for the &#8220;decapitation&#8221; of the Iraqi government. The two men reviewed how a war against Saddam could be triggered; that list included a &#8220;dispute over WMD inspections.&#8221; It&#8217;s evidence that the administration was seeking a pretense for war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gist of most of the comments on the article is &#8220;Well, I knew from the get go that this was a hoax.&#8221;  I put myself in that camp.  I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if there is a post somewhere on this blog that makes that clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones has the article &#8220;Hubris&#8221;: New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War &#8220;Hoax&#8221;. The film highlights a Pentagon document declassified two years ago. This memo notes that in November 2001\u2014shortly after the 9\/11 attacks\u2014Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with General Tommy Franks to review plans for the &#8220;decapitation&#8221; of the Iraqi government. The two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13416,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions\/13416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}