{"id":197309,"date":"2008-02-14T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/the-us-has-no-permanent-military-bases-anywhere\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:20:00","slug":"the-us-has-no-permanent-military-bases-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/the-us-has-no-permanent-military-bases-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Has No Permanent Military Bases Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/bush-is-now-promising-no-permanent.html\">I claimed that Bush&#8217;s statement of &#8220;No Permanent Bases in Iraq&#8221; was a lie<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, now we get the parsing, because Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> are now saying that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080213\/pl_afp\/usiraqwhousebases_080213171224\">US has no permanent bases anywhere in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have them in Japan, or Korea, or Germany, because at some point, the host government could ask us to leave, or, in <strong>a few billion years<\/strong>, the sun could go nova.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that his &#8220;no permanent bases&#8221; statement was a lie, but now he&#8217;s parsing it on the basis of what the word &#8220;is&#8221; is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I claimed that Bush&#8217;s statement of &#8220;No Permanent Bases in Iraq&#8221; was a lie? Well, now we get the parsing, because Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 are now saying that the US has no permanent bases anywhere in the world. We don&#8217;t have them in Japan, or Korea, or Germany, because at some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197309"}],"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=197309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}