{"id":911,"date":"2003-04-14T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/04\/14\/\/"},"modified":"2003-04-14T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T14:56:37","slug":"911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/04\/911\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. action in Iraq has fundamentally challenged the rule of law in the world<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/2003\/Apr\/04142003\/commenta\/commenta.asp\" rel=\"external\">this is the domino effect<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The American attack on Iraq could be used as a precedent, using exactly the same arguments as President Bush, to justify an Indian attack on Pakistan or a North Korean attack on South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/un-earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>James Woolsey, former CIA, a Bush administration insider was recently mentioned in a leaked Pentagon document as one of the possible administrators of post-war Iraq. Last week in LA, he described the war in Iraq as <strong>the start of the Fourth World War<\/strong>, and warned that <em>&#8220;this Fourth World War will last considerably longer than either the First or Second World Wars did for us.&#8221;<\/em> He explained that the real enemies this time, were the religious rulers of Iran, the &#8220;fascists&#8221; of Iraq and Syria, and the Islamic extremists of al-Qaeda. He made no distinctions between them, and he <strong>promised a long crusade<\/strong> against them. There was no suggestion that the US would bother to get legal authority from the UN before attacking the sovereign states on his list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. action in Iraq has fundamentally challenged the rule of law in the world and this is the domino effect&#8230; The American attack on Iraq could be used as a precedent, using exactly the same arguments as President Bush, to justify an Indian attack on Pakistan or a North Korean attack on South Korea. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}