{"id":198942,"date":"2007-09-26T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/iraq-government-finally-gets-to-work-on-something-useful\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:36:00","slug":"iraq-government-finally-gets-to-work-on-something-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/iraq-government-finally-gets-to-work-on-something-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Government Finally Gets to Work on Something Useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&amp;storyid=2007-09-25T124022Z_01_L15544758_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml\">drafting a law regulating <strike>mercenaries<\/strike> military contractors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a problem, it is viewed as a problem by all ethnic groups, it appears to be moving toward a resolution, and it&#8217;s not a sell out to US oil companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are drafting a law regulating mercenaries military contractors. It&#8217;s a problem, it is viewed as a problem by all ethnic groups, it appears to be moving toward a resolution, and it&#8217;s not a sell out to US oil companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,1179,985,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-mercenaries","category-regulation","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198942"}],"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=198942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}