{"id":1732,"date":"2005-08-16T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/standing_up_for\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T16:35:20","slug":"standing_up_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/standing_up_for\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Up For Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on <i>Hardball with Chris Matthews<\/i> they had on two women at President Bush&#8217;s ranch who support the Iraq war&#8211;anti-Cindy Sheehans, if you will.  One of them was apparently an Iraqi.<br \/>\nI thought it not a little suspicious that an Iraqi woman would just happen to be in Crawford, Texas, for this kind of thing.  Then when I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8972348\/\">this<\/a>, the staged protester alert really went off:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MATTHEWS:  Let me ask you this.  How many years should the United States stay in Iraq and defend the side that you\ufffdre on?<br \/>\nLAMOTTE:  I think when&#8230;<br \/>\nMATTHEWS:  How many years?<br \/>\nLAMOTTE:  I think when Iraqi people can be\ufffdstand up on their own, at that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.  When the Iraqi people stand up . . . the Americans will stand down.  That sounds awfully familiar.  Isn&#8217;t it a real coincidence that an Iraqi just happened to use Bush&#8217;s language?<br \/>\nSurprise!  Turns out that the woman apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2005\/8\/15\/221353\/668\">isn&#8217;t just your random Iraqi off the street<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/standing_up_for\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Standing Up For Iraq\"><p>Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews they had on two women at President Bush&#8217;s ranch who support the Iraq war&#8211;anti-Cindy Sheehans, if you will. One of them was apparently an Iraqi. I thought it not a little suspicious that an Iraqi woman would just happen to be in Crawford, Texas, for this kind of [&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-1732","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\/1732","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=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}