{"id":198609,"date":"2007-10-24T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/24\/iraq-revokes-contractor-immunity\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T04:05:00","slug":"iraq-revokes-contractor-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/24\/iraq-revokes-contractor-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Revokes Contractor Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004543.php\">Iraq has revoked L. Paul Bremer&#8217;s grant of immunity to contractors<\/a>, and so now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004549.php\">the contractors in Iraq are considering cutting and running<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing.  They do more harm than good, they cost too much, and mercenaries are just plain wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, this is an action that must have somewhere near 100% support by the Iraqi public, and it useful for the average citizen to see the central government doing something productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq has revoked L. Paul Bremer&#8217;s grant of immunity to contractors, and so now the contractors in Iraq are considering cutting and running. This is a good thing. They do more harm than good, they cost too much, and mercenaries are just plain wrong. Furthermore, this is an action that must have somewhere near 100% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1179,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-mercenaries","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198609"}],"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=198609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}