{"id":334,"date":"2003-12-10T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-10T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T02:37:15","slug":"because-when-you-think-of-engineering-know-how-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/10\/because-when-you-think-of-engineering-know-how-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Because When You Think of Engineering Know-How, You Think&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/infocus\/iraq\/news\/20030327-10.html>Of Estonia, Palau, and Rwanda<\/a>. Definitely not <a href=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/newswire\/2003\/12\/09\/rtr1175008.html>Germany<\/a>. The reconstruction of Iraq gets even funnier. Why screw the American taxpayers slightly less through a competitive bidding system open to countries with actual businesses in them when you can just hand the dough over in titanic fistfuls to the president&#8217;s friends and supporters? They&#8217;ll pass along just enough to Azerbaijani subcontractors to keep the Coalition quiet, and funnel the leftovers into reelecting friendly congressmen. The welfare-warfare state wins again.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t say <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/barganier\/ba040703.html>I never warned you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Estonia, Palau, and Rwanda. Definitely not Germany. The reconstruction of Iraq gets even funnier. Why screw the American taxpayers slightly less through a competitive bidding system open to countries with actual businesses in them when you can just hand the dough over in titanic fistfuls to the president&#8217;s friends and supporters? They&#8217;ll pass along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-334","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\/334","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}