{"id":4179,"date":"2010-07-02T19:49:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2010-07-02T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:51:50","slug":"using-the-mcchrystal-moment-to-raise-a-forbidden-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/02\/using-the-mcchrystal-moment-to-raise-a-forbidden-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the McChrystal Moment to Raise a Forbidden Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article <a title=\"Part 2 of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycensored.com\/2010\/06\/26\/david-ray-griffin-afghanistan-war-is-obviously-illegal-911-%E2%80%9Cjustifications%E2%80%9D-are-also-all-lies-2-of-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Ray Griffin: Afghanistan War is obviously illegal; 9\/11 \u201cjustifications\u201d are also all lies. 2 of 2<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second and final part to the story I posted in my previous blog entry, <a title=\"Previous blog entry\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/06\/29\/afghanistan-war-not-close-to-legal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Afghanistan War Not Close To Legal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this story too conspiratorial to believe?\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to think that the Middle East Muslims who claimed that 9\/11 was a false flag operation were as crazy as we thought they were when they first started saying this shortly after the attack.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time that stories from Al Jazeera were right and the ones from our own press were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Gerald Ford pardoned resigned President Nixon so the country wouldn&#8217;t have to suffer the divisive agony of finding out what really happened, this same line of reasoning may have occurred to the present administration.\u00a0 Gerald Ford was willing to give up a full term as re-elected President, to preserve us.\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t that a wonderful act of self-sacrifice?<\/p>\n<p>So what if thousands of American soldiers have to die and millions of Iraqis and Afghanis have to sacrifice to preserve our illusions.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it worth it?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why they hate us?<\/p>\n<p>Now we return to our regular programming of calm, collected reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article David Ray Griffin: Afghanistan War is obviously illegal; 9\/11 \u201cjustifications\u201d are also all lies. 2 of 2. This is the second and final part to the story I posted in my previous blog entry, Afghanistan War Not Close To Legal. Is this story too conspiratorial to believe?\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to think [&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-4179","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\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}