{"id":196706,"date":"2008-04-01T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/iraq-fighting-post-mortem-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:32:00","slug":"iraq-fighting-post-mortem-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/iraq-fighting-post-mortem-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Fighting Post Mortem (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have the revelation that the news cease fire was brokered by <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Iranian<\/span> General Qassem Suleimani, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/227\/story\/32141.html\">who is on a US terrorism watch list<\/a> for, &#8220;alleged involvement in terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology.<\/p>\n<p>When the going gets tough, our <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">allies the Hakim family run to Iran for help<\/span>.  Nice.<\/p>\n<p>The reports of NY Times reporter  is particularly instructive, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/31\/world\/middleeast\/31basra.html?ex=1364616000&amp;en=71a0ce54d3e90690&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">The common observation was this: There was nowhere the Mahdi either did not control or could not strike at will<\/a>.  Maliki and the Hakims lost, and they lost big.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the qualifier in the title is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraq2apr02,1,7758880.story\">elements of the Mahdi Army are claiming that the government is breaking the cease fire<\/a>.  Hopefully, this is simply a temporary artifact of a new cease fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have the revelation that the news cease fire was brokered by Iranian General Qassem Suleimani, who is on a US terrorism watch list for, &#8220;alleged involvement in terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear and missile technology. When the going gets tough, our allies the Hakim family run to Iran for help. Nice. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196706"}],"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=196706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}