{"id":98,"date":"2007-04-01T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T05:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-04-01T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T05:48:13","slug":"just-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Just Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP and their sychophants on talk radio are slamming the Dems over their Iraqi withdrawal plan, calling it a surrender plan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just curious.  What&#8217;s their plan?  Other than just saying they want &#8220;victory&#8221;?  What is the goal?  How do they plan to achieve it?  It&#8217;s becoming clearer that the surge produced only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/01\/world\/middleeast\/01iraq.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">temporary lull<\/a> in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>So what do they plan to do?  That&#8217;s the one thing I never hear from the so-called conservatives.  All they talk about is how important the battle is and how leaving it will be a great victory for Al-Quaeda &#8212; which is amazing unlikely for a radical Sunni organization in a majority Shia state.  But they never present any ideas?  More troops?  Different tactics? Change of leadership?  We&#8217;re trying that now and it doesn&#8217;t seem to be doing much good.  So what is your plan?  Come on Bushbots.  Tell me what the plan is to achieve victory in Iraq?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP and their sychophants on talk radio are slamming the Dems over their Iraqi withdrawal plan, calling it a surrender plan. I&#8217;m just curious. What&#8217;s their plan? Other than just saying they want &#8220;victory&#8221;? What is the goal? How do they plan to achieve it? It&#8217;s becoming clearer that the surge produced only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Curious<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}