{"id":2043,"date":"2006-08-02T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/iraqis_ready_to_take_over_secu\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:56:02","slug":"iraqis_ready_to_take_over_secu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/iraqis_ready_to_take_over_secu\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis Ready To Take Over Security This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"President: Iraqi forces to take over by year's end\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/08\/02\/iraq.talabani\/\">Good<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday said Iraqi forces will take over security in all 18 Iraqi provinces by the end of the year, a presidential aide told CNN.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;We are highly optimistic that we will terminate terrorism in this year&#8230; the multinational forces&#8217; role is a supportive one and the Iraqi forces will take over security in all Iraqi provinces by the end of this year gradually and God&#8217;s will, we will take the lead,&#8221; The Associated Press reported Talabani as saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, oh.  Doesn&#8217;t the Iraqi president realize that time tables only embolden the terrorists?  I don&#8217;t know how he&#8217;s going to &#8220;terminate terrorism&#8221; in this manner.<br \/>\nCommander Stay-The-Course probably intends to have 100,000 troops in Iraq through 2009.  But hopefully this will add some sanity to the debate and embolden the Democrats to show a little resolve of their own.  A hopeful development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/iraqis_ready_to_take_over_secu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Iraqis Ready To Take Over Security This Year\"><p>Good: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Wednesday said Iraqi forces will take over security in all 18 Iraqi provinces by the end of the year, a presidential aide told CNN. . . . &#8220;We are highly optimistic that we will terminate terrorism in this year&#8230; the multinational forces&#8217; role is a supportive one and the [&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-2043","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\/2043","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=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}