{"id":533,"date":"2004-09-13T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2004-09-13T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T17:30:13","slug":"baghdad-burning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad Burning…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with a report that 110 had been killed in Iraq yesterday<\/a> (WaPo<\/i> puts the number as “at least 80 civilians killed<\/a>“) including a Palestinian Journalist killed by US Forces from an Apache helicopter as the camera was rolling (video here<\/a>), and at least five major cities now completely controlled by “insurgents”, things seem to be disintegrating there quickly.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the Bush Corporation has an excellent PR department, so anything<\/i> that gets through the PR filter to you and me between now and November 2nd can be assumed to be much worse than it’s reported. But, for those of us trying<\/i> to pay attention to the black hole where we’re pumping so much blood and treasure, there are many hints lately of what’s really<\/i> going on there (never mind Afghanistan which is similarly falling apart…not that it was ever “together” before we pulled out and moved to Iraq).<\/p>\n

Here’s just a few of the items from yesterday in Iraq, courtesy of “Today in Iraq<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

Bring \u2018em on: US troops in heavy fighting near Ramadi; ten Iraqis killed, 40 wounded.
\nBring \u2018em on: Thirty-seven Iraqis killed in Baghdad fighting.
\nBring \u2018em on: Three Polish soldiers killed, three wounded in ambush near Hilla.
\nBring \u2018em on: US troops launch offensive near Tal Afar.
\nBring \u2018em on: Four Iraqi policemen killed, three wounded in ambush near Mosul.
\nBring \u2018em on: Two Iraqi security guards wounded in attack on oil facility near Kirkuk.
\nBring \u2018em on: Five Iraqis killed by car bomb targeting US convoy near Samarra.
\nBring \u2018em on: Fifteen Iraqis killed in heavy fighting with US troops near Fallujah.
\nBring \u2018em on: Three Iraqi soldiers killed in roadside bomb ambush near Hilla.
\nBring \u2018em on: US patrol attacked by roadside bomb near As-Sina.
\nBring \u2018em on: Camp Zulu under mortar fire.
\nBring \u2018em on: CJTF-7 reports US troops repelled coordinated attack on Abu Ghraib prison.<\/div>\n

Pay attention. This is still a hot<\/i> war with injuries, deaths and attacks on US troops as high now as they’ve ever>\/i> been! Bush\/Cheney would very much like Americans to look elsewhere between now and November. Don’t be fooled…again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with a report that 110 had been killed in Iraq yesterday (WaPo puts the number as “at least 80 civilians killed“) including a Palestinian Journalist killed by US Forces from an Apache helicopter as the camera was rolling (video here), and at least five major cities now completely controlled by “insurgents”, things seem to […]<\/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-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}