{"id":198017,"date":"2007-12-20T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/20\/finally-something-all-iraqis-agree-on\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T11:01:00","slug":"finally-something-all-iraqis-agree-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/20\/finally-something-all-iraqis-agree-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Something All Iraqis Agree On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our fault.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/18\/AR2007121802262.html\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">All Iraqi Groups Blame U.S. Invasion for Discord, Study Shows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Karen DeYoung<br \/>Washington Post Staff Writer<br \/>Wednesday, December 19, 2007; Page A14<\/p>\n<p>Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of &#8220;occupying forces&#8221; as the key to national reconciliation, according to focus groups conducted for the U.S. military last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To quote Billy Joel (and of course, Alvin and the Chipmunks, who did the definitive cover), you may be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our fault. All Iraqi Groups Blame U.S. Invasion for Discord, Study Shows By Karen DeYoungWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, December 19, 2007; Page A14 Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see the departure of &#8220;occupying forces&#8221; 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":[1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198017"}],"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=198017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}