{"id":1926,"date":"2008-03-17T06:04:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/the-surge-is\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T06:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:10:12","slug":"the-surge-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/the-surge-is\/","title":{"rendered":"the surge is working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"283\" vspace=\"7\" height=\"337\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/surge1.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Cheney<\/strong>, <strong>McCain<\/strong>, and <strong>Lieberman <\/strong>are all in Iraq right now, gathering good news to bring home for the coming campaign. The surge is working, they&#8217;ll say. Deaths are down. Our new strategy [hiring <strong><em>insurgents<\/em><\/strong> to fight on our side] is turning things around. Oil Production [the Hydrocarbon Law] is on the rise [almost up to the prewar levels]. So we&#8217;ve only lost 2.15 young Americans a day since the surge began almost down to our average [2.13.day] before the surge. Like the surges before, so long as we keep our troop levels up, the casualty rate falls. Yesterday, the New York Times published the most recent stats:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/surge2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">You call it&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheney, McCain, and Lieberman are all in Iraq right now, gathering good news to bring home for the coming campaign. The surge is working, they&#8217;ll say. Deaths are down. Our new strategy [hiring insurgents to fight on our side] is turning things around. Oil Production [the Hydrocarbon Law] is on the rise [almost up to [&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-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}