{"id":2161,"date":"2008-05-11T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2008-05-11T22:39:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T03:39:26","slug":"simple-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/11\/simple-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"simple truth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Sometimes the truth can be said very simply. Suin at FDL has a blog post [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2008\/05\/11\/caught-in-the-middle\/\"><strong>Caught in the Middle<\/strong><\/a>] with a quote from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0512\/p01s01-wome.html?page=2\"><strong>Christian Science Monitor<\/strong><\/a> that&#8217;s in that category:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div>One Sadrist member of the Iraqi parliament summed up conditions in Iraq: &quot;The Sadrists say their principle objective remains a sovereign Iraq that is free from the &quot;vicious circle&quot; they say has made their country the battlefield in the American war on terror. <strong>&quot;The Americans are here fighting Al Qaeda and terrorism and to make America more secure, while Al Qaeda is here to fight the infidels,&quot;<\/strong> says Liqaa al-Yaseen, a member of the Sadrist parliamentary bloc. <strong>&quot;The result is terror for the Iraqi people caught in the middle of this war.&quot;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>If we had no agenda of our own, it is probable that we could have exited Iraq a long time ago [or maybe never gone in the first place]. The Iraqis are likely as opposed to al Qaeda being in Iraq as we were. So was Saddam Hussein.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the truth can be said very simply. Suin at FDL has a blog post [Caught in the Middle] with a quote from the Christian Science Monitor that&#8217;s in that category: One Sadrist member of the Iraqi parliament summed up conditions in Iraq: &quot;The Sadrists say their principle objective remains a sovereign Iraq that is [&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-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}