{"id":1810,"date":"2007-02-18T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/the-long-last-throws\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T17:25:44","slug":"the-long-last-throws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/the-long-last-throws\/","title":{"rendered":"the long last throws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/05\/30\/cheney.iraq\/\">eighteen Months ago the vice president predicted that the Iraq war would be over soon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is ridicolous is that this administration is still been taken serious by some. Their track record of mis judgements is pretty stellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eighteen Months ago the vice president predicted that the Iraq war would be over soon What is ridicolous is that this administration is still been taken serious by some. 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