{"id":608,"date":"2005-03-19T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/happy-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2005-03-19T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-19T07:00:47","slug":"happy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/happy-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Today is the 2nd anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Two full years of destruction and death; how many more?<\/p>\n<p>As you pause to wish all the soldiers could go home soon, knowing they won&#8217;t, don&#8217;t forget how we got into Iraq. Our President and everyone around him pushed as hard as they could. I&#8217;m certain they lied at times; you can say they mislead or misjudged &#8212; why is a fool a better leader than a liar?<\/p>\n<p>Remember that after the first arguments (&#8216;a mushroom cloud&#8217;) were so clearly wrong to everyone, the arguments shifted to &#8216;freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator.&#8217; Nobody mentioned that two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Remember as well that the same people who either bungled or deceived are still in power for 3+ more years, with eyes on the environment, Social Security and we don&#8217;t know what else yet. Stay alert and informed. Don&#8217;t let them get away with more.<\/p>\n<p>peace, mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US Troops still in Iraq &#8211; nearly 150,000<br \/>\nUS dead &#8211; over 1,500<br \/>\nUS wounded &#8211; over 11,500<br \/>\nIraqi dead &#8211; over 100,000<br \/>\nIraqi wounded &#8211; I don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 2nd anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Two full years of destruction and death; how many more? As you pause to wish all the soldiers could go home soon, knowing they won&#8217;t, don&#8217;t forget how we got into Iraq. Our President and everyone around him pushed as hard as they could. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/happy-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Anniversary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}