{"id":1141,"date":"2005-01-21T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T02:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2005-01-21T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-22T02:45:56","slug":"reuters-white-house-scraps-coalition-of-the-willing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"REUTERS: White House Scraps &#8216;Coalition of the Willing&#8217; List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200501\/s1286872.htm\" target=\"_blank\">from Reuters<\/a>, three months after it happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The White House has scrapped its list of Iraq allies known as the coalition of the willing, which Washington used to back its argument that the 2003 invasion was a multilateral action.<\/p>\n<p>A senior US administration official, wishing to remain anonymous, says the White House replaced the 45-member coalition list with a smaller roster of 28 countries with troops in Iraq sometime after the June transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government. <\/p>\n<p>The official could not say when or why the administration did away with the list of the coalition of the willing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000818.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Scrub_small.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>We, however, can tell you both <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00000818.htm\">when <i>and<\/i> why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We, however, cannot tell you <i>when<\/i> the MSM became such miserable failures at their jobs, or <i>why<\/i> it is that some jerk with a blog who works for no salary in a smoky little office in Los Angeles seems to be able to report &#8212; <i>when<\/i> it still actually matters &#8212; on issues that effect both America and the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>(If you feel sorry for us due to that snarky &#8220;no salary&#8221; comment above, feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=TheBradBlog@cville.com&#038;item_name=Help+Support+The+BRAD+BRAD&#038;item_number=123456\" target=\"paypal\">make a donation here<\/a> in order to immediately ease your pangs of guilt \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just out from Reuters, three months after it happened&#8230; The White House has scrapped its list of Iraq allies known as the coalition of the willing, which Washington used to back its argument that the 2003 invasion was a multilateral action. A senior US administration official, wishing to remain anonymous, says the White House replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}