{"id":199080,"date":"2007-09-10T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/10\/this-is-called-listening-to-your-generals-i-guess\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T04:13:00","slug":"this-is-called-listening-to-your-generals-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/10\/this-is-called-listening-to-your-generals-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Called Listening to Your Generals, I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/wars\/Britain_stayed_in_Basra_longer_because_of_US_commander130013274.php\">The UK delayed their withdrawal from Basra because of American political pressure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In April we could have come out and done the transition completely and that would have been the right thing to do but politics prevented that,&#8221; Bashall, 44, told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans asked us to stay for longer,&#8221; he said, adding the decision to stay in the city was a result of &#8220;political strategy being played out at highest level.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Cheney wants, Cheney gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK delayed their withdrawal from Basra because of American political pressure. &#8220;In April we could have come out and done the transition completely and that would have been the right thing to do but politics prevented that,&#8221; Bashall, 44, told the paper. &#8220;The Americans asked us to stay for longer,&#8221; he said, adding 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":[970,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199080","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\/199080"}],"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=199080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}