{"id":15379,"date":"2002-11-26T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-26T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/26\/truth-and-lies-in-baghdad\/"},"modified":"2002-11-26T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-26T12:15:00","slug":"truth-and-lies-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/26\/truth-and-lies-in-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth And Lies In Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/frontlineworld\/stories\/iraq\/vid22004.html\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Iraq: Truth and Lies in Baghdad&rdquo;<\/a>, PBS presents a series of videos in which their reporter Sam Kiley struggles to uncover information about Saddam Hussein&rsquo;s campaign of civilian repression and Iraq&rsquo;s weapons programs.  I&rsquo;m surprised that some of the video wasn&rsquo;t confiscated, although in most cases the reporter&rsquo;s efforts to find out information were thwarted by Iraqi officials.  Anybody with any lingering doubts about Saddam Hussein&rsquo;s blatant duplicity should watch these videos, although I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so na\u00efve. (Links directly to RealVideo part 2 of 4)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85717650?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its story &ldquo;Iraq: Truth and Lies in Baghdad&rdquo;, PBS presents a series of videos in which their reporter Sam Kiley struggles to uncover information about Saddam Hussein&rsquo;s campaign of civilian repression and Iraq&rsquo;s weapons programs. I&rsquo;m surprised that some of the video wasn&rsquo;t confiscated, although in most cases the reporter&rsquo;s efforts to find out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/26\/truth-and-lies-in-baghdad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truth And Lies In Baghdad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}