{"id":2380,"date":"2003-04-29T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/pure-myth\/"},"modified":"2003-04-29T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T20:46:52","slug":"pure-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/29\/pure-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"The Chronicle: 5\/2\/2003: The Neoconservative-Conspiracy Theory: Pure Myth\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v49\/i34\/34b01401.htm\">The Chronicle: 5\/2\/2003: The Neoconservative-Conspiracy Theory: Pure Myth<\/a> is a good summary of one of the most pervasive recent conspiracy theories:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ruins of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s shattered tyranny may provide additional evidence of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, but one poisonous by-product has already begun to seep from under the rubble. It is a conspiracy theory purporting to explain how the foreign policy of the world&#8217;s greatest power, the United States, has been captured by a sinister and hitherto little-known cabal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has lots of good &#8220;I told you so&#8221; material.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: 5\/2\/2003: The Neoconservative-Conspiracy Theory: Pure Myth is a good summary of one of the most pervasive recent conspiracy theories: The ruins of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s shattered tyranny may provide additional evidence of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, but one poisonous by-product has already begun to seep from under the rubble. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/29\/pure-myth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pure Myth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}