{"id":624,"date":"2007-09-22T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T14:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/saddam-killed-mandela-not\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T14:11:05","slug":"saddam-killed-mandela-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/saddam-killed-mandela-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam killed Mandela, NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this last night: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/mandela.jpg\" alt=\"Bush claims Mandela is dead, Saddam killed him.\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nNeedless to say, the headline prompted me to read what the latest Bush-ism was. In the latest dazed and confused (kind description) &#8211; alternately, outright lie &#8211; spewed from the Bush Administration (and this time, from Bush himself) <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070921\/wl_nm\/safrica_mandela_bush_dc;_ylt=AsIO5DhcGWJ.yKBwr4lOEfgEtbAF\">in a press conference the Bungler in Chief<\/a> declared that &#8220;Mandela is dead, Saddam killed all the Mandelas.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\">Photo of Mandela, alive!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/mandela3.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson Mandela is very much alive, it turns out Saddam didn't kill him\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\nWhen I read this, I thought surely that this was a typo. But no, our little genius was at it again. His defense?<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/mandela2.jpg\" alt=\"Cheney and Intelligence told me Saddam killed Mandela, so it must be true.\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nAfter all of this, watching the actual clip shows you just how far gone this guy is. Impeachment is still off the table? Unbelievable. This man isn&#8217;t competent enough to tend a garden, let alone a nation.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4NKmdd0clmQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4NKmdd0clmQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this last night: Needless to say, the headline prompted me to read what the latest Bush-ism was. In the latest dazed and confused (kind description) &#8211; alternately, outright lie &#8211; spewed from the Bush Administration (and this time, from Bush himself) in a press conference the Bungler in Chief declared that &#8220;Mandela is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}