{"id":947,"date":"2004-05-22T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2004-05-22T23:50:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-22T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2004-05-22T23:50:32","slug":"back-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/22\/back-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Albritton is <a href=\"http:\/\/back-to-iraq.com\">Back to Iraq<\/a> and describes his return trip in &#8220;Greetings from Baghdad,&#8221; along with comments about the raids on Ahmed Chalabi&#8217;s house and INC offices, as well as the wedding deaths in &#8220;Chalabi to CPA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger, also comments on Chalabi and the attack on the wedding party in her posting <a href=\"http:\/\/riverbendblog.blogspot.com\">En Kint Tedri&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>In the end, America had to know that Chalabi was virtually useless&#8230;. Could the decision-makers currently mulling over the Iraq situation be so ridiculously optimistic? Or could they have really been so wrong in the past? We have a saying in Arabic, <i>&#8220;En kint tedri, fe tilk musseeba\u2026 in kint la tedri, fa il musseebatu a&#8217;adham&#8221; which means, &#8220;If you knew, then that was a catastrophe\u2026 and if you didn&#8217;t know, then the catastrophe is greater.&#8221;<\/i><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Albritton is Back to Iraq and describes his return trip in &#8220;Greetings from Baghdad,&#8221; along with comments about the raids on Ahmed Chalabi&#8217;s house and INC offices, as well as the wedding deaths in &#8220;Chalabi to CPA.&#8221; And Riverbend, the Iraqi girl blogger, also comments on Chalabi and the attack on the wedding party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-947","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\/947","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}