{"id":1036623,"date":"2023-03-24T05:56:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=277624"},"modified":"2023-03-24T05:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:56:29","slug":"the-iraq-war-the-biggest-con-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/24\/the-iraq-war-the-biggest-con-of-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed.\u00a0 Instead, politicians and their pundit accomplices are prattling as if the Iraq war was a well-intentioned mistake, not a crime against humanity. In the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/24\/the-iraq-war-the-biggest-con-of-the-21st-century\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/24\/the-iraq-war-the-biggest-con-of-the-21st-century\/\">The Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/24\/the-iraq-war-the-biggest-con-of-the-21st-century\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed.\u00a0 Instead, politicians and their pundit accompl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036624,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036623\/revisions\/1036624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}