{"id":195660,"date":"2008-06-24T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/dems-to-try-to-block-iraq-no-bid-oil-contracts\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:30:00","slug":"dems-to-try-to-block-iraq-no-bid-oil-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/dems-to-try-to-block-iraq-no-bid-oil-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems To Try to Block Iraq No Bid Oil Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are threatening to, &#8220;cut off financing for as-yet-unspecified programs in Iraq that are not directly in support of U.S. troops,&#8221; but in the end, they will once again <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/24\/mideast\/iraqoil.php\">collapse like a bunch of overcooked broccoli<\/a> to George W. &#8220;@9% Approval&#8221; Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it is clear that these deals would &#8220;deepen political tensions in Iraq and put our service members in even greater danger,&#8221; when push comes to shove, I expect more capitulation from the Dems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are threatening to, &#8220;cut off financing for as-yet-unspecified programs in Iraq that are not directly in support of U.S. troops,&#8221; but in the end, they will once again collapse like a bunch of overcooked broccoli to George W. &#8220;@9% Approval&#8221; Bush. Even though it is clear that these deals would &#8220;deepen political tensions in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1135,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-energy","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195660"}],"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=195660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}