{"id":195254,"date":"2008-07-20T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/mccain-is-completely-fred\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T21:35:00","slug":"mccain-is-completely-fred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/20\/mccain-is-completely-fred\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain is Completely Fr#$@ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,566841,00.html\">in an interview in der Spiegel<\/a>, Nouri al Maliki, when asked about Obama&#8217;s 16 month time frame, replied, &#8220;US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/almalikis_announcement_a_big_d.php\">Marc Ambinder noted<\/a>, &#8220;Via e-mail, a prominent Republican strategist who occasionally provides advice to the McCain campaign said, simply, &#8216;We&#8217;re f#@$ed.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, John McCain is more than &#8220;Iraq Forever&#8221;, it&#8217;s &#8220;Iraq Forever, with permanent military Super-Bases&#8221;, and while Maliki&#8217;s government has backed off a bit on the statement, there is no way they want those US bases there, and what&#8217;s more domestic politics makes it politically untenable for them to want those bases there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that in an interview in der Spiegel, Nouri al Maliki, when asked about Obama&#8217;s 16 month time frame, replied, &#8220;US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.&#8221; As Marc Ambinder noted, &#8220;Via e-mail, a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,977,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-presidential-campaign","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195254"}],"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=195254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}