{"id":4062,"date":"2007-11-18T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/you-cant-hug-your-dictators-with-nuclear-arms\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:31:57","slug":"you-cant-hug-your-dictators-with-nuclear-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/18\/you-cant-hug-your-dictators-with-nuclear-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Hug Your Dictators With Nuclear Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> is reporting that the Bush Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/18\/washington\/18nuke.html?ex=1353042000&#038;en=1cc3e0a314f7bc65&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">has spent almost $100 million<\/a> helping Pakistan&#8217;s on-again, off-again dictator Pervez Musharraf secure the country&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction. <\/p>\n<p>This is the same Bush Administration that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars chasing after Iraq&#8217;s fictional WMDs, and is gearing up to spend God-only-knows how much on a missile defense systm to defend against Iran&#8217;s hypothetical future nukes. <\/p>\n<p>Sort of sad when $100 million wasted in the last 6 years (which would buy you a pretty good free agent in most professional sports) trying in vain to get a nuclear training center built in Pakistan seems like an economical option. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is reporting that the Bush Administration has spent almost $100 million helping Pakistan&#8217;s on-again, off-again dictator Pervez Musharraf secure the country&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction. This is the same Bush Administration that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars chasing after Iraq&#8217;s fictional WMDs, and is gearing up to spend God-only-knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-4062","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\/4062","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}