{"id":196473,"date":"2008-04-24T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/eddie-haskell-david-petraeus-to-head-centcom\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:25:00","slug":"eddie-haskell-david-petraeus-to-head-centcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/eddie-haskell-david-petraeus-to-head-centcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Haskell David Petraeus to Head CENTCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great.  This is a man who has staked his personal reputation in Iraq, and now they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyarsenal.org\/2008\/04\/petraeus-to-cen.html\">want him to allocate resources between Iraq and Afghanistan<\/a>.  I wouldn&#8217;t expect much perspective here.<\/p>\n<p>Even more disturbing are his lies regarding Iran, which implies that Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> now have someone who be willing to attack Iran without question.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, this will create a problem for an eventual Democratic nominee, because It&#8217;s clear that Petraeus will be a voice for Iraq forever, otherwise he looks like the charlatan he is, and there will be political blowback if they try to remove him from the post.<\/p>\n<p>My hope would be that the hearings for his appointment would be scheduled for sometime in late January, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great. This is a man who has staked his personal reputation in Iraq, and now they want him to allocate resources between Iraq and Afghanistan. I wouldn&#8217;t expect much perspective here. Even more disturbing are his lies regarding Iran, which implies that Bush and His Evil Minions&#8482; now have someone who be willing to attack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,970,1034,1063,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corruption","category-iran","category-iraq","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196473"}],"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=196473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}