{"id":184,"date":"2003-01-21T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2003-01-21T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/war_on_iraq\/"},"modified":"2003-01-21T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2003-01-21T14:00:08","slug":"war_on_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/war_on_iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resistance to the impending war on Iraq seems to be growing at about the same rate as the British Army is arriving in the Middle East.<br \/>\nYesterday more troop movements were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/2678653.stm\">announced<\/a>, with one quarter of the British Army now in the process of being sent into the area. This makes it the biggest buildup of land forces since Suez in 1956.<br \/>\nBut then today, The Guardian published their latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,879104,00.html\">poll<\/a> which shows the lowest suppport yet for a war. 47% of the population are outright opposed to war, and 81% of the population believe that there cannot be a war without a fresh United Nations mandate.<br \/>\nMeanwhile The Mirror published this front page: <BR><br \/>\n<IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/images\/frontpage.jpg\"><BR><br \/>\nThe idea is that you fill out the form on the front page and send it back to them.<br \/>\nThe bottom line is that we still haven&#8217;t had any convincing evidence to suggest that Saddam is busily building new weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resistance to the impending war on Iraq seems to be growing at about the same rate as the British Army is arriving in the Middle East. Yesterday more troop movements were announced, with one quarter of the British Army now in the process of being sent into the area. This makes it the biggest buildup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}