{"id":1540,"date":"2012-05-09T02:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T09:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2012-05-10T00:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T07:47:27","slug":"the-real-wmds-wieners-of-mass-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"The Real WMDs: Wieners of Mass Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enough Kim Jong Il&#8230;onto Saddam Hussein. Yes, the former Iraq dictator was a pain in the world&#8217;s ass for many years, but America made this monster back in the 80&#8217;s when he was heralded by the Reagan administration for fighting against the Ayatollah in Iran for eight years. And as with all tin horn dictators propped up by an enormous empire, they get too big for their britches and must be removed by the powers who enabled them in the first place (see every empire since the dawn of civilization).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our August 14, 2003 issue, when Saddam Hussein was still on the loose after the &#8220;slam dunk&#8221; invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1541\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1541\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1541\" title=\"saddamwiener\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saddamwiener.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saddamwiener.jpg 568w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/saddamwiener-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 85vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saddam Hussein was recently located in a Steubenville, Ohio parking lot distributing WMDs: wieners of mass destruction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough Kim Jong Il&#8230;onto Saddam Hussein. Yes, the former Iraq dictator was a pain in the world&#8217;s ass for many years, but America made this monster back in the 80&#8217;s when he was heralded by the Reagan administration for fighting against the Ayatollah in Iran for eight years. And as with all tin horn dictators &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Real WMDs: Wieners of Mass Destruction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,500],"tags":[507,115,511,98,261,512,509,508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}