{"id":878,"date":"2004-05-06T17:47:46","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T00:47:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-06T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T00:47:46","slug":"michael-ledeen-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/06\/michael-ledeen-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ledeen Is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranians <i>are<\/i> crazy. According to <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/05\/opinion\/05KRIS.html>Nicholas Kristof<\/a>, average Iranians are &#8220;fulsome in their praise&#8221; for Dubya, they adore Hillary Clinton, and many &#8220;seem convinced that the U.S. military ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are going great.&#8221; Yep, get out the butterfly net.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they might be nuts, but if these things are true, do they really need <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/ledeen\/ledeen090902.asp>us<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/001\/509udwne.asp>to<\/a> &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/joelmowbray\/jm20030714.shtml>liberate<\/a>&#8221; <a href=http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/michaelkelly\/mk20020731.shtml>them<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranians are crazy. According to Nicholas Kristof, average Iranians are &#8220;fulsome in their praise&#8221; for Dubya, they adore Hillary Clinton, and many &#8220;seem convinced that the U.S. military ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are going great.&#8221; Yep, get out the butterfly net. Anyway, they might be nuts, but if these things are true, do [&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-878","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\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}