{"id":571,"date":"2003-09-23T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=571"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:23:50","slug":"571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Hi, George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--106432335721133138-->&#8220;Hi. My name is George and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/09\/22\/sprj.irq.bush.un\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I need your help<\/strong><\/a>. Iraq needs your help as well. I know that the economy in my country is in horrific shape, but I need my government and fellow countrymen to somehow fund an additional $87 billion to make sure my imperial vision for that poor little country holds true. And now that our troops stationed there are being slowly picked off one by one &#8230; I need you, other nations of the world, to put your men in harm&#8217;s way as well so that my global vision of democracy can get a foot hold in the Middle East. Sure, I exaggerated about the WMDs and Saddam&#8217;s capabilities of making\/using them. Sure, I lied about the ties between 9\/11 terrorists and Iraq. Can&#8217;t we just let that go? Now is your chance to step up to the plate and show me support I so richly deserve. Because, with me at the helm, we can not fail in our mission for an American global structure, whether anyone likes it or not.&#8221;<!--edb3b25a87fd8c70233eb00d301dc9f5--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hi. My name is George and I need your help. Iraq needs your help as well. I know that the economy in my country is in horrific shape, but I need my government and fellow countrymen to somehow fund an additional $87 billion to make sure my imperial vision for that poor little country holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8EnCu-571","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10810,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/10810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}