{"id":185477,"date":"2014-11-08T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/08\/bush-with-a-tan\/"},"modified":"2014-11-08T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:22:00","slug":"bush-with-a-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/08\/bush-with-a-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush with a Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rzXVrao.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-07\/obama-to-seek-added-5-6-billion-for-islamic-state-fight.html\">escalating in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Barack Obama has approved doubling the U.S. military force in Iraq and allowing troops to venture beyond headquarters already established in Baghdad and Erbil, in an escalation of the U.S. effort to defeat Islamic State extremists. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president\u2019s approval to send as many as 1,500 personnel is in addition to 1,600 he previously authorized, 1,400 of whom are in Iraq today protecting U.S. facilities and assisting the Iraqi military. Troops that have been confined to Baghdad, the capital, and Erbil in Kurdish northern Iraq now will be permitted to train and advise Iraqi forces at a number of Iraqi military facilities, according to a White House statement. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This of course, not going any sort of escalation, they promise:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cU.S. troops will not be in combat, but they will be better positioned to support Iraqi security forces as they take the fight\u201d to the Sunni extremists, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said today in the statement. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Double the troops.<\/li>\n<li>Double the exposure to possible violence.<\/li>\n<li>Double the possibility that one of them will be taken captive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope, no escalation here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is escalating in Iraq: President Barack Obama has approved doubling the U.S. military force in Iraq and allowing troops to venture beyond headquarters already established in Baghdad and Erbil, in an escalation of the U.S. effort to defeat Islamic State extremists. \u2026\u2026\u2026The president\u2019s approval to send as many as 1,500 personnel is in addition &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1051,1063,986,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-hypocrisy","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}