{"id":203,"date":"2015-11-30T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-11-30T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:18:11","slug":"blair-and-bush-went-to-war-in-iraq-despite-south-africas-wmd-assurances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Blair and Bush went to war in Iraq despite South Africa&#8217;s WMD assurances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God, Spies and Lies, by South African journalist John Matisonn, describes how then president Thabo Mbeki tried in vain to convince both Blair and President George W Bush that toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 would be a terrible mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Mbeki\u2019s predecessor, Nelson Mandela, also tried to convince the American leader, but was left fuming that \u201cPresident Bush doesn\u2019t know how to think\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/30\/blair-and-bush-went-to-war-in-iraq-despite-south-africas-wmd-assurances\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/30\/blair-and-bush-went-to-war-in-iraq-despite-south-africas-wmd-assurances<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, Spies and Lies, by South African journalist John Matisonn, describes how then president Thabo Mbeki tried in vain to convince both Blair and President George W Bush that toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 would be a terrible mistake. Mbeki\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=203\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}