{"id":2021,"date":"2008-04-07T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/07\/unapology\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:21:14","slug":"unapology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/07\/unapology\/","title":{"rendered":"unapology&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>After days of thinking the current violence in Iraq war an American Operation against Moqtada al-Sadr, I apologized for being paranoid when Crocker said otherwise. I take it back. <font color=\"#400040\"><strong>I unapologize!<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"205\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2008\/04\/07\/PH2008040700638.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/04\/07\/hundreds-of-iraqis-flee-baghdad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds of Iraqis flee Baghdad.<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">At least 14 Iraqi civilians were killed in clashes in Baghdad today; nine of the casualties occurred in Sadr City, the Mahdi Militia&rsquo;s stronghold that &ldquo;has been under siege since last week by about 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops.&rdquo; Three American troops were also killed, and hundreds of Iraqis fled Baghdad &ldquo;as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">The timing is just to pat. <font color=\"#400040\"><strong>Crocker and Petraeus in Washington<\/strong><\/font>. <font color=\"#400040\"><strong>McCain&#8217;s major Iraq War speech<\/strong><\/font>. And <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/28\/scenario-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\">all the stuff I mentioned before<\/a><\/strong>. <font color=\"#400040\"><strong>This is American Republican Theatrics 101<\/strong><\/font>, nothing less. It&#8217;s actually getting a lot of Americans and Iraqi people killed; it&#8217;s not working very well; and it&#8217;s clearly our taking sides in a Shiite Civil War. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">But what else is new? &#8230; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After days of thinking the current violence in Iraq war an American Operation against Moqtada al-Sadr, I apologized for being paranoid when Crocker said otherwise. I take it back. I unapologize! &nbsp; Hundreds of Iraqis flee Baghdad. At least 14 Iraqi civilians were killed in clashes in Baghdad today; nine of the casualties occurred 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-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}