{"id":193692,"date":"2008-11-23T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/23\/why-bush-caved-on-iraqi-demands-in-sof-agreement\/"},"modified":"2008-11-23T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T18:42:00","slug":"why-bush-caved-on-iraqi-demands-in-sof-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/23\/why-bush-caved-on-iraqi-demands-in-sof-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bush Caved on Iraqi Demands in SOF Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: Bush needed the agreement, and the Iraqis didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>They knew that if there was no agreement, that they would win, and Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#038;trade<\/sup> would lose, so they could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/227\/story\/56182.html\">drive a very hard bargain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bush was prisoner of his own ego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: Bush needed the agreement, and the Iraqis didn&#8217;t. They knew that if there was no agreement, that they would win, and Bush and His Evil Minions&#038;trade would lose, so they could drive a very hard bargain. Bush was prisoner of his own ego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193692"}],"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=193692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}