{"id":671,"date":"2003-07-02T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T18:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2003-07-02T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T18:39:26","slug":"what-we-were-told-july-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"What we were told (July 2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly series chronicling what was in the warhard papers a year ago: in the first week of July, the <em>Telegraph<\/em> had no opinion pieces mentioning Iraq. But it did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F07%2F07%2Fniraq07.xml\">announce <\/a>our role in the war.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F07%2F07%2Fniraq07.xml\">Tony Blair and George Bush are known to have discussed in detail how Iraq should be governed once Saddam&#8217;s Ba&#8217;ath regime has been toppled. The preferred option is to allow the Iraqi people to decide for themselves in a referendum.\n\n<p>The British and US governments are concerned that any attack would meet with international opposition. The Telegraph, however, understands that Britain has &#8220;ample classified evidence&#8221; that proves Saddam has manufactured and stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n\nAn MoD official said: &#8220;Justifying any attack would not be a problem because the evidence exists that he has weapons of mass destruction. It will not be made public yet because it would compromise the means by which it was acquired.&#8221;<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly series chronicling what was in the warhard papers a year ago: in the first week of July, the Telegraph had no opinion pieces mentioning Iraq. But it did announce our role in the war. Tony Blair and George &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}