{"id":195736,"date":"2008-06-17T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/threat-of-demand-to-leave-in-iraq-status-of-forces-agreement\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:08:00","slug":"threat-of-demand-to-leave-in-iraq-status-of-forces-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/threat-of-demand-to-leave-in-iraq-status-of-forces-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat of Demand to Leave in Iraq Status of Forces Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/iraq\/story\/41047.html\">Nouri al-Maliki is suggesting that it is possible that US forces will be asked to leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not, I think, a real position, but it indicates that he and his allies are willing to play some hardball in the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Were US troops to leave, half the parliament, as well as Maliki, would be strung up from lamp posts in the next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Nouri al-Maliki is suggesting that it is possible that US forces will be asked to leave. This is not, I think, a real position, but it indicates that he and his allies are willing to play some hardball in the negotiations. Were US troops to leave, half the parliament, as well as &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-195736","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\/195736"}],"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=195736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}