{"id":195,"date":"2003-01-15T04:29:59","date_gmt":"2003-01-15T04:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=195"},"modified":"2022-02-22T04:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:44:22","slug":"iraq-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2003\/01\/15\/iraq-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png 391w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine one day your neighbor calls the cops, and tells them that you are building a bomb in your house. The cops refuse to stop by, and your neighbor threatens to tell the neighborhood committee that the cops are useless guards to your neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the cops come to your house, and finds nothing. They make the announcement at the neighborhood meeting. End of story, right? WRONG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The neighbor proceeds to explain&nbsp;<strong><em>their&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>logic (however twisted it is) &#8211;&nbsp;<em>The fact that the cops couldn&#8217;t find any evidence&nbsp;<strong>is&nbsp;<\/strong>evidence itself that I am hiding something<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>What the *&amp;$#?<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;There is no winning, is there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What would&nbsp;<em>you&nbsp;<\/em>do in this situation? You know you&#8217;re not making bombs in your basement, but the one making the accusations won&#8217;t believe you, no matter what you say or do.<br><br>I am not questioning the fact that Iraq may have nukes, or in development of nukes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just can&#8217;t comprehend the aggressiveness given to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine one day your neighbor calls the cops, and tells them that you are building a bomb in your house. The cops refuse to stop by, and your neighbor threatens to tell the neighborhood committee that the cops are useless guards to your neighborhood. So the cops come to your house, and finds nothing. They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}