{"id":4385,"date":"2007-04-10T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2007-04-10T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:40:43","slug":"house-democrat-asks-for-answers-on-bush-surge-when-does-this-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4385","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat Asks For Answers on Bush &#8216;Surge&#8217;: &#8216;When Does This End?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up Arlen Parsa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4379\">BRAD BLOG article from yesterday<\/a> detailing how the size of Bush&#8217;s troop surge continues to balloon &#8212; in both troop and budget size &#8212; above and beyond what American&#8217;s were told originally, today Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the House Armed Service Committee chairman,  sends a letter to DefSec Gates asking &#8220;Where does this end?&#8221; on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/04\/09\/tours-of-duty-for-15000-us-army-troops-extended\/\">yesterday&#8217;s news<\/a> that yet another 17,000 troops will be added to the &#8220;surged&#8221; forces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Armed_Services_Chair_to_Gates_Where_0410.html\">RAW STORY has the full letter&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up Arlen Parsa&#8217;s BRAD BLOG article from yesterday detailing how the size of Bush&#8217;s troop surge continues to balloon &#8212; in both troop and budget size &#8212; above and beyond what American&#8217;s were told originally, today Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the House Armed Service Committee chairman, sends a letter to DefSec Gates asking &#8220;Where [&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":[192,24,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-iraq-war","category-war-on-terror","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","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=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}