{"id":2471,"date":"2011-12-20T21:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2011-12-20T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:19:22","slug":"statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, when Bush&#8217;s stupid war in Iraq began, I started putting some statistics up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vttoth.com\/daybook.asp?strtm=April&amp;strtd=22&amp;strty=2003&amp;stopm=April&amp;stopd=22&amp;stopy=2003\">then blog site<\/a>. Statistics like this one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of biological bombs in Iraq, according to Colin Powell: 400,<\/li>\n<li>Number of biological bombs found in Iraq: 0,<\/li>\n<li>Amount of anthrax in Saddam Hussein&#8217;s possession, according to Colin Powell: 16,000 kg,<\/li>\n<li>Amount of anthrax found in Iraq: 0 kg,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and so on. Now that the Iraqi war officially came to an end, CNN provided some interesting statistics of their own:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/capture_20111218_080731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2472 aligncenter\" title=\"capture_20111218_080731\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/capture_20111218_080731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/capture_20111218_080731.jpg 660w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/capture_20111218_080731-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So my question is&#8230; was it worth it? Even if we ignore the fact that Iraq may yet become a satellite state of an increasingly powerful Iran and as such, a worse security threat than Saddam Hussein has ever been, his evil sons and chemical attacks on civilians notwithstanding?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2471' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, when Bush&#8217;s stupid war in Iraq began, I started putting some statistics up on my then blog site. Statistics like this one: Number of biological bombs in Iraq, according to Colin Powell: 400, Number of biological bombs found in Iraq: 0, Amount of anthrax in Saddam Hussein&#8217;s possession, according to Colin Powell: 16,000 <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2471' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-25-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}