{"id":23006,"date":"2011-04-19T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23006"},"modified":"2011-04-19T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:29:03","slug":"so-it-was-for-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23006","title":{"rendered":"So it WAS for oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t pass this up, via Drudge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Brits did it!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plans to exploit Iraq&#8217;s oil reserves were discussed by government  ministers and the world&#8217;s largest oil companies the year before Britain  took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article tries to put everyone in the same boat, but NOW we know who started it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couldn&#8217;t pass this up, via Drudge. The Brits did it! Plans to exploit Iraq&#8217;s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world&#8217;s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The article tries to put everyone in the same boat, but NOW we know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5Z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}