{"id":1298,"date":"2004-02-03T12:15:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T19:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2004-02-03T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T19:15:22","slug":"bipartisan-commission-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/03\/bipartisan-commission-in-the-offing\/","title":{"rendered":"BiPartisan Commission in the Offing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001839\"><\/a><i>President Bush will establish a <b>bipartisan<\/b> commission in the next few days to examine American intelligence operations, including a study of possible misjudgments about Iraq&#8217;s unconventional weapons, senior administration officials said Sunday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>NY Times 2-2-04<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why exactly, but I&#8217;m not really interested in reading the Lieberman \/ Rumsfeld Report.  The fascinating thing here is that <a href=\"\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&amp;b=24889\">those with eyes to see<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&amp;b=6228#2\">can pretty well connect the dots<\/a> on what happened (at least during the Bush Administration) with regards to Iraq, and it&#8217;s not terribly pretty.  This should be as big a self-parody as the Hutton Report turned out to be.<\/p>\n<p>For the conspiaranoid,  check this one out:<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3451195.stm\">Mr Bush will model his inquiry on the Warren Commission into President John F Kennedy&#8217;s death in 1963. <\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>What are they trying to tell us there?  Next thing they&#8217;ll be telling us that they&#8217;ve tapped Henry Kissinger to head the Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions being taken about other possible bipartisans tapped to look into apologetics for the further obfusication of the run-up to war.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rall.com\/2004_02_01_archive.html#107582314396567891\">Ted Rall&#8217;s blog<\/a> covering Clintonian inanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush will establish a bipartisan commission in the next few days to examine American intelligence operations, including a study of possible misjudgments about Iraq&#8217;s unconventional weapons, senior administration officials said Sunday. NY Times 2-2-04 I don&#8217;t know why exactly, but I&#8217;m not really interested in reading the Lieberman \/ Rumsfeld Report. The fascinating thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}