{"id":2496,"date":"2018-04-16T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:24:11","slug":"mission-accomplished-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished, no. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/missionaccomplished03\/missionaccomplished03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/missionaccomplished03\/missionaccomplished03_650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just before the latest round of US bombing in Syria,<\/strong> I found myself appalled at a sabre-rattling op-ed in the Washington <em>Post<\/em> bearing the bloodthirsty declaration <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycggwxpu\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We Need To Go Big In Syria. North Korea Is Watching&#8221;.<\/a> Never mind that we&#8217;re bombing Syria again despite no real evidence of chemical attacks, and before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opcw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OPCW<\/a> inspectors could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chemical-weapons-watchdog-opcw-to-send-inspectors-to-syria-after-suspected-gas-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">get in to investigate<\/a> &#8212; hell, evidence is for squares these days &#8212; the US media have totally shifted from the issue of fabricated chemical attacks to this tinhorn in North Korea who we&#8217;re supposed to be scared to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/missionaccomplished03\/wapo%20%27go%20big%20in%20syria%27%20tweet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"535\" \/>death of despite not being able to get his missles to work and whose nuclear arsenal isn&#8217;t even 1\/10 the size of the US &#8212; the only nation in history to have actually <em>used<\/em> nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, let&#8217;s make an example of this tinhorn in order to put the fear of god into this other tinhorn &#8212; classic crass schoolyard bullying. What else could you expect from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_Thiessen\" target=\"_blank\">an old GW Bush flunkie?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>12&#215;14 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/missionaccomplished03\/missionaccomplished03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.1mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the latest round of US bombing in Syria, I found myself appalled at a sabre-rattling op-ed in the Washington Post bearing the bloodthirsty declaration &#8220;We Need To Go Big In Syria. North Korea Is Watching&#8221;. Never mind that we&#8217;re bombing Syria again despite no real evidence of chemical attacks, and before the OPCW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,762,9],"tags":[791,881,522],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-assad","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}