{"id":193908,"date":"2008-11-07T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/07\/obama-victory-gets-status-of-forces-agreement-signed\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:46:00","slug":"obama-victory-gets-status-of-forces-agreement-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/07\/obama-victory-gets-status-of-forces-agreement-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Victory Gets Status of Forces Agreement Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/07\/world\/middleeast\/07iraq.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;oref=slogin\">did not trust the Republicans to leave as promised<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cBefore, the Iraqis were thinking that if they sign the pact, there will be no respect for the schedule of troop withdrawal by Dec. 31, 2011,\u201d said Hadi al-Ameri, a powerful member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a major Shiite party. \u201cIf Republicans were still there, there would be no respect for this timetable. This is a positive step to have the same theory about the timetable as Mr. Obama.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The legacy of the Bush administration is the belief that they, and by extension the United States, could not be trusted to uphold agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they did not trust the Republicans to leave as promised: \u201cBefore, the Iraqis were thinking that if they sign the pact, there will be no respect for the schedule of troop withdrawal by Dec. 31, 2011,\u201d said Hadi al-Ameri, a powerful member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a major Shiite party. \u201cIf &hellip;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193908"}],"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=193908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}