{"id":238,"date":"2003-12-02T00:19:28","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T05:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/conflicting_stories\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T00:19:28","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T05:19:28","slug":"conflicting_stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/conflicting_stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicting Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2003\/12\/02\/IRAQ.TMP\">telling the truth<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. commanders said Monday they had killed up to 54 insurgents in the fiercest battle since Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government fell nearly eight months ago, but townspeople disputed that claim, saying only about nine Iraqis were killed in the battle Sunday, most of them noncombatants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t accept either version at face value.<br \/>\nAt any rate, this isn&#8217;t good:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All the people in town today are asking for revenge,&#8221; said Majid Fadel al-Samarai, 50, an emergency-room worker at the Samarra General Hospital who said he counted nine dead people at the hospital on Sunday. &#8220;They want to kill the Americans like they killed our civilians. Give me a gun, and I will also fight.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a middle-aged emergency-room worker.  Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/conflicting_stories\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Conflicting Stories\"><p>Who&#8217;s telling the truth? U.S. commanders said Monday they had killed up to 54 insurgents in the fiercest battle since Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government fell nearly eight months ago, but townspeople disputed that claim, saying only about nine Iraqis were killed in the battle Sunday, most of them noncombatants. Frankly, I don&#8217;t accept either version at [&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-238","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\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}