{"id":11111,"date":"2015-08-16T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11111"},"modified":"2015-08-16T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:43:27","slug":"11111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11111","title":{"rendered":"Neocons Falsify Iraq War \u2018Lessons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/08\/15\/neocons-falsify-iraq-war-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neocons Falsify Iraq War \u2018Lessons\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>Having escaped accountability for the Iraq War disaster, U.S. neocons are urging the use of more military force in the Mideast, in line with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s demand to block the Iran nuclear deal. From their important perches of power, these war hawks also twist the history of their catastrophic misjudgments, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>It really rankles some people that Barack Obama was correct from the outset, before any unfolding of the history confirming he was right, that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a huge mistake. And one can understand how to some ears Mr. Obama\u2019s subsequent references to the Iraq War may have a grating \u201cI told you so\u201d quality.<\/p>\n<p>Those most likely to be annoyed are the President\u2019s most fervent political opponents, who include most of those who were the most fervent promoters of the Iraq War. Possibly there also is some unspoken annoyance among those who fit into neither of these categories but who allowed themselves to be swept up in the pre-war militancy that the war promoters skillfully exploited.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fredhiatt.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9555\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fredhiatt.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"Washington Post's editorial page editor Fred Hiatt.\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These latter people include, as\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0editorial page chief\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-foreign-policy-lessons-from-iraq-inform-obamas-iran-deal\/2015\/08\/09\/05ac258c-3c74-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html\">Fred Hiatt reminds us<\/a>, President Obama\u2019s Vice President and both of his secretaries of state, all of whom were among the majority of Democratic senators who voted \u2014 along with nearly unanimous Republican ranks \u2014 for the war resolution in 2002. Hiatt makes this observation in the course of acknowledging his own support for the war at that time and suggesting that the Iraq War ought not to be a \u201csingle-issue litmus test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neocons Falsify Iraq War \u2018Lessons\u2019 Having escaped accountability for the Iraq War disaster, U.S. neocons are urging the use of more military force in the Mideast, in line with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s demand to block the Iran nuclear deal. From their important perches of power, these war hawks also twist the history of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[6963,8153,441,6763,1426,562,2583,7245,655,5228],"class_list":["post-11111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-fred-hiatt","tag-iran","tag-iraq-war","tag-misinformation","tag-neoconservatives","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-paul-r-pillar","tag-propaganda","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11114,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}