{"id":97,"date":"2004-10-05T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T17:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"theyd-better-get-their-story-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;d better get their story straight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/10\/05\/soldiers.mother.ap\/index.html\">From CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies<br \/>\n&#8216;Her grief was so intense,&#8217; hospital worker says<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Posted: 12:28 PM EDT (1628 GMT) <\/p>\n<p>TUCSON, Arizona (AP) &#8212; <i>A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his body.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/10\/05\/bremer.rumsfeld\/index.html\">from CNN<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday conceded that U.S. intelligence was wrong in its conclusions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why the intelligence proved wrong [on weapons of mass destruction], I&#8217;m not in a position to say,&#8221; Rumsfeld said in remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. &#8220;I simply don&#8217;t know.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When asked about any connection between Saddam and al Qaeda, Rumsfeld said, &#8220;To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But a short time later, Rumsfeld released a statement: &#8220;A question I answered today at an appearance before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) regarding ties between al Qaeda and Iraq regrettably was misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have acknowledged since September 2002 that there were ties between al Qaeda and Iraq.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I hope these arrogant bastards can get their story straight enough to explain to the Unruh family why Robert Unruh, and his mother, had to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: Mother of soldier killed in Iraq collapses, dies &#8216;Her grief was so intense,&#8217; hospital worker says Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Posted: 12:28 PM EDT (1628 GMT) TUCSON, Arizona (AP) &#8212; A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his body. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}