{"id":165,"date":"2004-06-03T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T10:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/06\/03\/his_story_of_the_world\/"},"modified":"2004-06-03T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T10:25:21","slug":"his_story_of_the_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/06\/03\/his_story_of_the_world\/","title":{"rendered":"His story of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to G.W. Bush:<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=5325831\">Like the Second World War<\/a>, our present conflict [Iraq] began with a ruthless surprise attack on the United States. We will not forget that treachery and we will accept nothing less than victory over the enemy.&#8221;<br \/>\nOh, where do I start?<br \/>\n1. The second world war started on Sept. 3, 1939, when Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany. WWII did <i>not <\/i>start two years later on Dec. 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked.<br \/>\n2. Ruthless <i><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/us\/DailyNews\/warningmemo020516.html\">surprise<\/a><\/i> attack?<br \/>\n3. Bush himself is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3118262.stm\">on record<\/a> as saying there is no link between Iraq and the 9\/11 attack. So how did the &#8216;present conflict&#8217; begin with an unrelated attack?<br \/>\nHarumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to G.W. Bush: &#8220;Like the Second World War, our present conflict [Iraq] began with a ruthless surprise attack on the United States. We will not forget that treachery and we will accept nothing less than victory over the enemy.&#8221; Oh, where do I start? 1. The second world war started on Sept. 3, 1939, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/06\/03\/his_story_of_the_world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;His story of the world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}