{"id":829,"date":"2005-01-19T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/weapons-of-mass-distraction\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:48:05","slug":"weapons-of-mass-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/weapons-of-mass-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of Mass Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I&#8217;m shocked.<\/p>\n<p>During her confirmation hearing, soon-to-be Secretary of State Condi Rice admitted that, concerning our military presence in Iraq,<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have made a lot of decisions in this period of time. Some of them have been good, some of them have not been good, some of them have been bad decisions, I am sure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, damn. Who knew? <\/span><span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><span><br \/>\n<br \/>Actually, my brother. He&#8217;s an Army MP who is, as we speak, on a plane to Kuwait for his <span>second<\/span> deployment to our favorite Middle Eastern outpost. Never mind that the first time Uncle Sam sent him to Baghdad, he came home with a plate and seven screws in his arm. Apparently, that injury wasn&#8217;t enough fun, so now my little bro will spend 12-18 more months in a country that flat doesn&#8217;t want him there.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to think how his wife and four kids must feel about this. I know I&#8217;m not too happy about it.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>Read the whole scoop on the Rice confirmation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=7374585\">here<\/a>.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked. During her confirmation hearing, soon-to-be Secretary of State Condi Rice admitted that, concerning our military presence in Iraq, &#8220;We have made a lot of decisions in this period of time. Some of them have been good, some of them have not been good, some of them have been bad decisions, I am sure.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,23],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31G3g-dn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mimiwells.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}