{"id":3195,"date":"2007-01-15T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/15\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T22:52:23","slug":"where-have-all-the-flowers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/15\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the flowers gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table width=\"425\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>Vietnam &#8220;War&#8221;  Defense Sec. Robert McNamara, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317910\/\">The Fog of War<\/a>   <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[youtube]Bl8wpsGooOo[\/youtube]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>&#8216;Mr. McNamara, you must never have read a history book!&#8217;<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table width=\"425\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>Maj. Gen. John Batiste, retiring head of &#8220;The Big Red One&#8221;<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[youtube]LVpGzCVQz4U[\/youtube]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>&#8216;There was no surprise with that insurgency. Anyone who has read a little bit of history of Iraq would have anticipated that.&#8217;<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, how often do the folks at the top &#8212; for whatever reason &#8212; get it wrong?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table width=\"425\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>Tim Russert to Bush advisor Stephen Hadley<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[youtube]r1qSfiblsbE[\/youtube]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>With all those mistakes, &#8220;&#8230;why should the American people trust you now&#8230;?&#8221; Meet The Press, Jan. 14, 2007<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, when <em>WILL<\/em> they ever learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Vietnam &#8220;War&#8221; Defense Sec. Robert McNamara, The Fog of War [youtube]Bl8wpsGooOo[\/youtube] &#8216;Mr. McNamara, you must never have read a history book!&#8217; . Maj. Gen. John Batiste, retiring head of &#8220;The Big Red One&#8221; [youtube]LVpGzCVQz4U[\/youtube] &#8216;There was no surprise with that insurgency. Anyone who has read a little bit of history of Iraq would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}