{"id":1212,"date":"2006-04-19T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/114544782157783677\/"},"modified":"2006-12-02T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T23:59:12","slug":"denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I get the feeling that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4922088.stm\">today&#8217;s PMQs<\/a> could prove significant in a couple of years&#8217; time when we get a few more leaks of classified documents? Oh, I know &#8211; it&#8217;s this explicit denial from the Prime Minister:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nobody is talking about a military invasion against Iran or military action against Iran. We are taking diplomatic action through the UN security council.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One single bit of evidence of planning meetings discussing strategic missile strikes or the like against Iran prior to 19th April 2006 &#8211; Blair has lied to parliament. (And, please note, if they haven&#8217;t had some talks of this kind they&#8217;d be &#8211; from a strategic point of view at least &#8211; almost as insane as they would be to try and invade the place&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I get the feeling that today&#8217;s PMQs could prove significant in a couple of years&#8217; time when we get a few more leaks of classified documents? Oh, I know &#8211; it&#8217;s this explicit denial from the Prime Minister: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/denial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blair","category-the-war-against-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}