{"id":199992,"date":"2007-06-12T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/12\/the-surge-is-working-not\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T16:44:00","slug":"the-surge-is-working-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/12\/the-surge-is-working-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surge is Working&#8212;NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already lost.  Let&#8217;s get out before we lose any more troops.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070612\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq;_ylt=A0WTUe03bG5GO3sBlgGs0NUE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070612\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq;_ylt=A0WTUe03bG5GO3sBlgGs0NUE\">Bombings target 3 key bridges in Iraq &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 41 minutes ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">BAGHDAD &#8211; Suspected Sunni insurgents bombed and badly damaged a span over the main north-south highway leading from Baghdad on Tuesday \u2014 the third bridge attack in as many days in an apparent campaign against key transportation arteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The attack occurred 35 miles south of Baghdad and just six miles south of a bridge brought down on Sunday by what was believed to be a suicide truck bomber. Three U.S. soldiers guarding that bridge were killed in Sunday&#8217;s blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The explosion at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday \u2014 not thought to be a suicide bomb \u2014 struck a bridge linking the villages of al-Qariya al-Asriyah and al-Rashayed in northern Babil province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already lost. Let&#8217;s get out before we lose any more troops. Bombings target 3 key bridges in Iraq &#8211; Yahoo! NewsBy KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 41 minutes ago BAGHDAD &#8211; Suspected Sunni insurgents bombed and badly damaged a span over the main north-south highway leading from Baghdad on Tuesday \u2014 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":[1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199992"}],"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=199992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}