{"id":447,"date":"2008-03-19T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=447"},"modified":"2018-11-22T01:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:11:48","slug":"five-years-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/five-years-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years in Iraq&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/georgewliar.jpg\" alt=\"georgewliar.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, today marks five horrific years since the \u201cpre-emptive strike\u201d on Iraq by the U.S., based on conclusive \u201cintelligence\u201d it had collected regarding the threat that Baghdad posed to the world\u2019s fear-ridden superpower\u2026 we all know where things are <em>actually<\/em> at\u2014though <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7305023.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this<\/strong><\/a> is what George W. Bush had to say today (please listen to the dear man\u2019s voice for full effect).<\/p>\n<p>Because sometimes the best thing you can do is laugh, here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to a more humorous take on things (language warning)\u2014thanks to Shirley Hicks in Toronto for that, from an exchange on the GDC Listserv today. I also heard Phil Donohue on CBC Radio while driving to work (I don\u2019t normally listen to American talk-show hosts, I\u2019ll have you know\u2026) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=huSTOZu0kMM\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s<\/a> what Phil had to say.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Sad, very sad, a very sad day indeed\u2026 thankfully spring arrives within a few hours from now, as Tom Waits quips <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vgeZEdbv_m8\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u2026.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. Well, today marks five horrific years since the \u201cpre-emptive strike\u201d on Iraq by the U.S., based on conclusive \u201cintelligence\u201d it had collected regarding the threat that Baghdad posed to the world\u2019s fear-ridden superpower\u2026 we all know where things are actually at\u2014though this is what George W. Bush had to say today (please listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,12,13,14,15,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16997,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/16997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}