{"id":1353,"date":"2004-12-24T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T18:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/iraqis_for_bush\/"},"modified":"2004-12-24T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T18:05:53","slug":"iraqis_for_bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/iraqis_for_bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis For Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING NEWS: Islamic militants view the U.S. occupation of Muslim territory <a title=\"Former French hostage: Iraqi militants wanted Bush re-elected\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2004\/12\/24\/international0621EST0458.DTL\">as a recruiting tool<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush to win re-election.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nOne of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said Bush&#8217;s re-election would boost their cause, Malbrunot wrote in Friday&#8217;s edition of Le Figaro, the French daily he works for.<br \/>\n&#8220;We want Bush because with him the American troops will stay in Iraq and that way we will be able to develop,&#8221; Malbrunot cited the captor as saying.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nAnother captor, who described himself as the group&#8217;s head of internal intelligence, told the men that the Islamic Army has four enemies: American and coalition troops, &#8220;their collaborators, that is to say Italian businessmen, or even French,&#8221; as well Iraqi police and spies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m shocked to read this.  Who could have ever imagined that some people don&#8217;t like foreign armies occupying their country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/iraqis_for_bush\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Iraqis For Bush\"><p>BREAKING NEWS: Islamic militants view the U.S. occupation of Muslim territory as a recruiting tool: French journalists held hostage for four months in Iraq said their militant captors told them they wanted President Bush to win re-election. . . . One of the captors from the group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}