{"id":199126,"date":"2007-09-05T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/john-edwards-calls-out-congress-on-war\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T21:33:00","slug":"john-edwards-calls-out-congress-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/john-edwards-calls-out-congress-on-war\/","title":{"rendered":"John Edwards Calls Out Congress on War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, the Washington DC Journamalist press corps will use this to claim that Edwards is too far out there<sup>*<\/sup>, but in reality the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/09\/edwards_to_congress_dont_fund_war_without_withdrawal_timetable.php\">that congress should not fund the war without a withdrawal timetable<\/a> is actually pretty safe.<\/p>\n<p>More than 90% of the primary voters, and more than 70% of those folks who are not Republican Dead Enders<sup>&trade;<\/sup> support this.  It&#8217;s a natural vote getter.<\/p>\n<p>My recommendation to any Democratic presidential candidate is to state loudly and clearly that escalation by attacking Iran is a bad thing.  It would destabilize the region, provide popular support to the Iranian theocracy, and put more American lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I would suggest that a candidate should suggest that this is a reason to initiate immediate impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, the Washington DC Journamalist press corps will use this to claim that Edwards is too far out there*, but in reality the fact that that congress should not fund the war without a withdrawal timetable is actually pretty safe. More than 90% of the primary voters, and more than 70% of those &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,978,977,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126"}],"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=199126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}