{"id":1744,"date":"2007-10-16T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/courageous\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T23:22:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T04:22:53","slug":"courageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/16\/courageous\/","title":{"rendered":"courageous&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firedoglake.com\/2007\/10\/15\/breaking-news-hillary-pledges-to-end-war-immediately-upon-taking-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">             Hillary Pledges to End War &ldquo;Immediately&rdquo; Upon Taking Office<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"179\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"250\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/static.firedoglake.com\/2007\/10\/hillary.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>What I do know, is that I heard her say that she would end the Iraq war immediately upon taking office. Lots of heads snapped up when she said that (and there was plenty of applause, even a little whooping) and the very politically plugged in person sitting next to me remarked that the statement was &ldquo;completely new&rdquo;. She went on to say that the troops had already done everything they had been asked to do: got rid of Saddam, created a situation where elections could take place, surged to create political stability so the elected Iraqi government could do some legislating and work out a political solution (which she said they have not done) and that it was unfair to ask our troops to stay in Iraq and &ldquo;play referee to an Iraqi civil war.&rdquo; She said there is no military solution.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">A courageous statement. I hope she meant it. William Kristol and Rush Limbaugh are going to go ballistic on this one&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>[program pre-recorded on the back porch]<\/em>&nbsp; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Pledges to End War &ldquo;Immediately&rdquo; Upon Taking Office What I do know, is that I heard her say that she would end the Iraq war immediately upon taking office. Lots of heads snapped up when she said that (and there was plenty of applause, even a little whooping) and the very politically plugged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}