{"id":38794393,"date":"2007-09-01T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2007\/08\/monitoring-the.html"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:22:35","slug":"200708monitoring-the-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/200708monitoring-the-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring the World, by Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Washington Post (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/30\/AR2007083001848.html\">Lawmakers Describe &#8216;Being Slimed in the Green Zone&#8217;<\/a>), describing a meeting between three members of Congress (Ellen Tauscher: D-CA, Jim Moran: D-VA, and Jon Porter: R-NV) with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/Mowaffak%20al-Rubaie\">Mowaffak al-Rubaie<\/a>, Iraq&#8217;s National Security Advisor&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\"><p>At one point, the three were trying to discuss the state of Iraqi security forces with Iraq&#8217;s national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, but the large, flat-panel television set facing the official proved to be a distraction. Rubaie was watching children&#8217;s cartoons.When Moran asked him to turn it off, Rubaie protested with a laugh and said, &#8220;But this is my favorite television show,&#8221; Moran recalled.Porter confirmed the incident, although he tried to paint the scene in the best light, noting that at least they had electricity.&#8221;I don&#8217;t disagree it was an odd moment, but I did take a deep breath and say, &#8216;Wait a minute, at least they are using the latest technology, and they are monitoring the world,&#8217; &#8221; Porter said. &#8220;But, yes, it was pretty annoying.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder which cartoons Mr. al-Rubaie was watching that Rep. Porter equates to &#8216;monitoring the world&#8217;.  Are they the same ones President Bush watches?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Washington Post (Lawmakers Describe &#8216;Being Slimed in the Green Zone&#8217;), describing a meeting between three members of Congress (Ellen Tauscher: D-CA, Jim Moran: D-VA, and Jon Porter: R-NV) with Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq&#8217;s National Secur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38794393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMc1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38794393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354369,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794393\/revisions\/173354369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38794393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38794393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38794393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}