{"id":532,"date":"2007-05-01T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2007-05-01T11:38:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T18:38:32","slug":"mission-still-unaccomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/mission-still-unaccomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Still Unaccomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According the our esteemed President and Commander-in-Chief, &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221; ended four years ago today on May 1, 2003.<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/APmission.jpg\" alt=\"APmission.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" \/><br \/>\nHere is the start of Bush&#8217;s speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/05\/20030501-15.html\">Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: <strong>Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. (Applause.)<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On that date, only 139 American soldiers had died.  Since then, 3212 have died.    That doesn&#8217;t count the over 62,760 Iraqi civilians who have died.  No one ever seems to counts them.<br \/>\nAs an American citizen, voter and taxpayer, I am opening demanding to Mr. Bush that he bring the vast majority of our men and women home from the Gulf.  Let&#8217;s give diplomacy a try and our troops and equipment a rest.  Four years in a desert is never good for any car &#8211; think about what its doing to our military&#8217;s trucks, tanks, personnel carriers, helicopters, etc.  You should see the amount of sand that gets in my stuff after one day at the beach.  After four years at the beach?  Oh man&#8230;I don&#8217;t even want to think about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According the our esteemed President and Commander-in-Chief, &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221; ended four years ago today on May 1, 2003. Here is the start of Bush&#8217;s speech: Thank you all very much. Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,326,500,686],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bush","tag-iraq","tag-politics","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}