{"id":354,"date":"2003-10-10T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:59:14","slug":"354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/10\/354\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Bush Want Foreign Troops in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So President Bush has gone a-crawling to the United Nations, and he&#8217;s gone a-begging to Turkey and Europe and Japan for money and troops to help stabilize Iraq and to help rotate out some of our troops and give them a chance to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Why, oh why, would he want a rested and ready military force that&#8217;s not currently committed to patrolling the streets of a nation in the process of regentrification and recivilization?<\/p>\n<p>Because he&#8217;s chicken, or trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/7620.htm\" target=\"new\">win an election<\/a>, or maybe because he <i><b>wants to be ready for the next target<\/b><\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>What a bunch of second-rate hawks.  Maybe I am a neoneoconservative.  Or just read too much Machiavelli and Sun Tzu in my formative years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So President Bush has gone a-crawling to the United Nations, and he&#8217;s gone a-begging to Turkey and Europe and Japan for money and troops to help stabilize Iraq and to help rotate out some of our troops and give them a chance to rest. Why, oh why, would he want a rested and ready military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21945,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/21945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}