{"id":569,"date":"2004-09-17T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2004-09-17T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T19:07:33","slug":"making-progress-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Making &#8216;Progress&#8217; in Iraq&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has been speaking lately to the American people of &#8220;making progress&#8221; in Iraq since handing over &#8220;sovereignty&#8221;. Hopefully he&#8217;s not referring to <i>this<\/i> kind of progress since handing over &#8220;sovereignty&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JUL &#8217;04: <b>1.87<\/b> US Troops killed per day (<b>54 total<\/b>)<br \/>\nAUG &#8217;04: <b>2.42<\/b> US Troops killed per day (<b>66 total<\/b>)<br \/>\nSEP &#8217;04: <b>3.24<\/b> US Troops killed per day (<b>51 total<\/b>) ~<\/p>\n<p><i>~ = So far, just 17 days into month. Making September &#8217;04 deadliest month of the last six.<\/i> Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\"><i>Iraq Coalition Casualties<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush, in the meantime, while criticizing Kerry for offering no Exit Strategy in Iraq, has offered no Exit Strategy from Iraq. As of this post, <strike>1,029<\/strike> (update) 1,030 US Troops have been killed in Bush&#8217;s &#8220;miscalculation&#8221; so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has been speaking lately to the American people of &#8220;making progress&#8221; in Iraq since handing over &#8220;sovereignty&#8221;. Hopefully he&#8217;s not referring to this kind of progress since handing over &#8220;sovereignty&#8221;: JUL &#8217;04: 1.87 US Troops killed per day (54 total) AUG &#8217;04: 2.42 US Troops killed per day (66 total) SEP &#8217;04: 3.24 US [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}