{"id":2268,"date":"2003-03-06T04:28:32","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/03\/the-three-ring-circus\/"},"modified":"2003-03-06T04:28:32","modified_gmt":"2003-03-06T11:28:32","slug":"the-three-ring-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/06\/the-three-ring-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Ring Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt’s not clear whether there’s going to be another UN Resolution. The Washington Post says Three Countries Vow To Block U.S. on Iraq<\/a> and the LA Times says compromise language<\/a> is in the works. Meanwhile, troops continue to build and pilots fly training missions<\/a> over southern Iraq.<\/p>\n

The real war is already underway among the military officers in Iraq, who are figuring out when and how to surrender, if they have any sense. Saddam knows he’s doomed, despite the fact that he probably continues the bluster with the people he talks to; his dance with the inspectors is only delaying the inevitable.<\/p>\n

I don’t think there is going to be a war in Iraq after all. Oh, bombs will be dropped, power plants and military installations will be torched, and troops will roll in, but it won’t be a war as much as a cake walk before a surrendering Army. After all the UN drama and the peace marches and the hostile anti-American rhetoric, when the President presses ‘enter’ it will be a huge anti-climax.<\/p>\n

Both the pro-liberation and the anti-war sides will claim victory, and the Iraqi people will breath a collective sigh of relief. A war crimes trial for Saddam and his chiefs would be good, just so we can milk some more drama out of this reality show during the May sweeps, however.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not clear whether there’s going to be another UN Resolution. The Washington Post says Three Countries Vow To Block U.S. on Iraq and the LA Times says compromise language is in the works. Meanwhile, troops continue to build and pilots fly training missions over southern Iraq. The real war is already underway among the … Continue reading “The Three Ring Circus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-AA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}