{"id":37502,"date":"2013-09-10T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37502"},"modified":"2013-09-10T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:06:59","slug":"post-fact-checker-awards-kerry-4-pinocchios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37502","title":{"rendered":"Post Fact Checker awards Kerry 4 Pinocchios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/kerrys-claim-that-he-opposed-bushs-invasion-of-iraq\/2013\/09\/10\/12ef9fe6-1a00-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_blog.html\">Fact Checker<\/a> examines John Kerry&#8217;s claims that he opposed the 2003 invasion of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq and Kerry comes up short on the truth;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;given that Kerry has now twice in recent months made the claim that he opposed the war in Iraq, this is clearly not a case of a momentary slip-up.<\/p>\n<p>For Kerry, the uncomfortable fact remains that he voted to authorize the use of force against Iraq, he believed the intelligence that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he said there was little choice but to launch an invasion to disarm him. Kerry may have been highly critical of Bush\u2019s diplomatic efforts in advance of the invasion, but that is not the same thing as opposing the war when it started.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for the secretary to stop making this claim. In trying to make a distinction between his vote to authorize the war and his later dismay at how it turned out, Kerry earns Four Pinocchios.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not surprised that Kerry would lie (Christmas in Cambodia, anyone?) I am surprised that the Post would actually call him out on it. Yeah, we really dodged a bullet in 2004. But that bullet came back around in 2008 and got us in the ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s Fact Checker examines John Kerry&#8217;s claims that he opposed the 2003 invasion of &hellip; <a title=\"Post Fact Checker awards Kerry 4 Pinocchios\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37502\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post Fact Checker awards Kerry 4 Pinocchios<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-kerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}