{"id":1090,"date":"2004-03-13T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/13\/i-know-im-cynical-but-damn-it\/"},"modified":"2004-03-13T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T21:39:00","slug":"i-know-im-cynical-but-damn-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/13\/i-know-im-cynical-but-damn-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I know I&apos;m cynical, but damn it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From reading your friendly neighborhood propaganda source:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/03\/13\/afghan.binladen.hunt\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>U.S. prepares Afghanistan offensive: Operation Mountain Storm intensifies hunt for bin Laden<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; The next round of military operations in Afghanistan will be named &#8220;Operation Mountain Storm,&#8221; U.S. defense officials said Friday. Officials have said that ground troops and aircraft are expected to move into Afghanistan&apos;s southeastern border region near Pakistan in the days and weeks ahead to conduct operations against Taliban and al Qaeda remnants believed to be operating there.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Why do I see big red bells ringing at this, especially since it&apos;s an election year in the US and dubya is getting worried that his approval rating is slipping?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From reading your friendly neighborhood propaganda source: http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/03\/13\/afghan.binladen.hunt\/index.html U.S. prepares Afghanistan offensive: Operation Mountain Storm intensifies hunt for bin Laden WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; The next round of military operations in Afghanistan will be named &#8220;Operation Mountain Storm,&#8221; U.S. defense officials said Friday. Officials have said that ground troops and aircraft are expected to move into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/13\/i-know-im-cynical-but-damn-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I know I&apos;m cynical, but damn it&#8230;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}