{"id":1035,"date":"2009-07-26T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T07:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2009-07-26T07:55:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T07:55:43","slug":"positive_unintended_consequenc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Positive Unintended Consequences Of The Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15 of this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601116&amp;sid=aGO8Xp9Zxa2U\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>&nbsp;ran a story stating that Libya was on the verge of making a nuclear weapon when they gave up their nuclear program.&nbsp; Remember, Libya had been attacked under the Reagan administration for its terrorist activities.&nbsp; I am sure that when they saw what happened to Iraq because of suspected nuclear activity, they did not want to be next on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/34286_Video-_Gadafi_Says_Libya_Was_on_the_Brink_of_Producing_a_Nuclear_Bomb\">Little Green Footballs<\/a>&nbsp;has a video and transcript of Gaddafi&#8217;s statement saying that Libya was ready to assembly a nuclear weapon when they gave up their program.&nbsp; One of the highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;The world had changed, alliances had changed, the world map had changed &#8211; against whom would we use the nuclear bomb? We searched and couldn&#8217;t find an enemy worthy of us using the nuclear bomb on. In addition, we thought: How will we protect this nuclear bomb? How will we dismantle it and hide each part separately? How will we assemble it when necessary? If there is a target &#8211; how will we protect the transportation of the bomb to the target? We found that the expenses and problems would endanger Libya more than [the bomb] would protect its security. Therefore, we decided to voluntarily shut down our nuclear program.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Does anyone believe this would have happened without the invasion of Iraq?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 15 of this year, Bloomberg.com&nbsp;ran a story stating that Libya was on the verge of making a nuclear weapon when they gave up their nuclear program.&nbsp; Remember, Libya had been attacked under the Reagan administration for its terrorist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}