{"id":1973,"date":"2012-07-16T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2012-07-16T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:03:56","slug":"rewind-wmds-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: WMDs Found?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when they found the WMDs responsible for leading America to invade Iraq and start the Iraq War which lasted eight years, cost almost a trillion dollars, and killed (depending on your source) between 100,000 and 1 million people? Oh, that&#8217;s right&#8230;they never found them. Huh, guess we got taken for a ride by ol&#8217; Dubya and company didn&#8217;t we. <a title=\"Iraq war will haunt west, says Briton who advised US military\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jul\/15\/iraq-war-briton-us-military\" target=\"_blank\">But surely nothing bad has or will result from it, right?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh well, here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our October 28, 2006 issue which shows the Bush administration finding the WMDs in a most unexpected place.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1974\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1974\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1974\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1974\" title=\"victoriacraterwmd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/victoriacraterwmd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/victoriacraterwmd.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/victoriacraterwmd-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to the recent satellite photos of Mars and the rover, Opportunity, the Bush administration has announced that they have finally found the weapons of mass destruction and that we must invade Mars immediately to spread freedom and democracy to the Martians.<\/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>Remember when they found the WMDs responsible for leading America to invade Iraq and start the Iraq War which lasted eight years, cost almost a trillion dollars, and killed (depending on your source) between 100,000 and 1 million people? Oh, that&#8217;s right&#8230;they never found them. Huh, guess we got taken for a ride by ol&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: WMDs Found?&#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":[61,49,8,3],"tags":[50,22,52,9,115,458,614,21,19,508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973"}],"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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}