{"id":526,"date":"2004-01-26T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/iraq_update\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T05:58:19","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T10:58:19","slug":"iraq_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/iraq_update\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it with the all the Golden Globe, Bennifer, or &#8220;Friends&#8221; hoopla, here&#8217;s what happened with Iraq this weekend:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/25\/international\/middleeast\/25IRAQ.html?ex=1390366800&#038;en=fad8b4e03832acd6&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Six U.S. soldiers were killed<\/a>.<br \/>\nThree American servicemen are missing following a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=736&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20040126\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq\">helicopter crash<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Council for Sunnis throws another wrench into reconstruction plans by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,1131099,00.html\">demanding an end to the U.S. occupation before elections are held<a>.<br \/>\nDavid Kay calls out the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20040126\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/us_iraq_weapons\"\">U.S. Iraqi intelligence apparatus<\/a> for its pre-war failure.  (A phenomenon Kenneth Pollack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2004\/01\/media-preview\/pollack.htm\">attempts to explain<\/a>.)  Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpundit.com\/archives\/003129.html\">continues his <strike>lies<\/strike> spin<\/a>, while no one is held accountable for mistakes.<br \/>\nOther than that, things are going pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/iraq_update\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Iraq Update\"><p>In case you missed it with the all the Golden Globe, Bennifer, or &#8220;Friends&#8221; hoopla, here&#8217;s what happened with Iraq this weekend: Six U.S. soldiers were killed. Three American servicemen are missing following a helicopter crash. The Council for Sunnis throws another wrench into reconstruction plans by demanding an end to the U.S. occupation before [&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-526","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\/526","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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}