{"id":576,"date":"2004-09-19T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2004-09-19T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2004-09-19T16:21:34","slug":"the-mess-o-potamia-grows-messier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"The Mess O’ Potamia Grows Messier…"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it may have been another quiet week in Lake Wobegon, it was anything but<\/i> quiet in Iraq. According to “Iraq Coalition Casualty Count”<\/a> — a website that posts publically released Pentagon data on Iraq casualties, but is blocked by the Pentagon in Iraq so that troops there cannot have access to it — there have been 1,032 US Troops killed so far.<\/p>\n

And here’s what you<\/i> probably haven’t heard all that much about over the last two days there. Once again from “Today in Iraq”<\/a> (another site blocked from troops in Iraq by the Pentagon):<\/p>\n

War News for September 17 and 18, 2004<\/b>
\nBring \u2018em on: One US Marine killed in fighting in al-Anbar province.
\nBring \u2018em on: Thirteen Iraqis killed, 50 wounded by car bomb in Baghdad.
\nBring \u2018em on: Twenty-three Iraqis killed by car bomb at Iraqi army headquarters in Kirkuk.
\nBring \u2018em on: Three Iraqis killed, three wounded in US air strike in Fallujah.
\nBring \u2018em on: Iraqi working for British troops in Basra assassinated.
\nBring \u2018em on: Kidnapped governor of al-Anbar province executed by insurgents.
\nBring \u2018em on: Nine Iraqis killed by mortar fire in Baquba.
\nBring \u2018em on: Iraqi oil official survives assassination attempt near Mosul; four bodyguards killed.
\nBring \u2018em on: Two American, one British contractor kidnapped by insurgents in Baghdad.
\nBring \u2018em on: Insurgents execute three Iraqi truck drivers transporting US supplies.
\nBring \u2018em on: British troops raid al-Sadr’s offices in Basra.
\nBring \u2018em on: One Iraqi killed, two wounded by roadside bomb in Baghdad.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it may have been another quiet week in Lake Wobegon, it was anything but quiet in Iraq. According to “Iraq Coalition Casualty Count” — a website that posts publically released Pentagon data on Iraq casualties, but is blocked by the Pentagon in Iraq so that troops there cannot have access to it — there […]<\/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-576","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\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}