{"id":540,"date":"2004-09-13T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2004-09-13T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T23:30:59","slug":"iraq-worse-than-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Worse Than Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you paying attention, the U.S. was in Vietnam for more than five full years before we&#8217;d suffered our 1,000th casualty.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Iraq, in just under a year and a half, we&#8217;ve already lost 1,009.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for the record, from the start of the war (&#8220;Shock and Awe!&#8221;) through Bush&#8217;s announced &#8220;end of major hostilities&#8221; (&#8220;Mission Accomplished!&#8221;) the U.S. had lost a total of 139 troops.<\/p>\n<p>Since handing over fake &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; at the beginning of July through today, we have lost 155 troops.<\/p>\n<p>How will it end? What&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s exit strategy? Is there one? Is there any way out? You tell me.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq Coalition Casualty Count<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you paying attention, the U.S. was in Vietnam for more than five full years before we&#8217;d suffered our 1,000th casualty. Meanwhile in Iraq, in just under a year and a half, we&#8217;ve already lost 1,009. Also, for the record, from the start of the war (&#8220;Shock and Awe!&#8221;) through Bush&#8217;s announced &#8220;end [&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-540","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\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}