{"id":2940,"date":"2004-10-29T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/truly-absurd\/"},"modified":"2004-10-29T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-29T18:25:00","slug":"truly-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/truly-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A7418-2004Oct28.html\">Washington Post<\/a> puts the Al QaQaa story in context:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons of rather ordinary explosives, regardless of what actually happened at al Qaqaa,&#8221; Anthony H. Cordesman, a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in an assessment yesterday. &#8220;The munitions at al Qaqaa were at most around 0.06 percent of the total.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you want a president who can&#8217;t tell the important issues from the unimportant ones? I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerlsimon.com\/\">Roger Simon<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celluloid-wisdom.com\/pw\/\">Jeff Goldstein<\/a> for more on this non-story\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post puts the Al QaQaa story in context: &#8220;There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons of rather ordinary explosives, regardless of what actually happened at al Qaqaa,&#8221; Anthony H. Cordesman, a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in an assessment yesterday. &#8220;The munitions at al Qaqaa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/truly-absurd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truly absurd&#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-2940","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-Lq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}