{"id":921,"date":"2003-11-28T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/turkey-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2003-11-28T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T19:11:52","slug":"turkey-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/turkey-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/39537000\/jpg\/_39537352_bushturkey_203ap.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey and soldier\"\/><a title=\"BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Bush back from surprise Iraq trip\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/3245584.stm\">Bush back from surprise Iraq trip<\/a> BBC NEWS<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s David Bamford, in Washington, says that politically speaking, <b>this was a spectacularly well-planned event<\/b>, one year ahead of presidential elections. <\/p>\n<p>In America the visit is being hailed as <b>a public-relations coup<\/b> that was a central topic of conversation around the nation&#8217;s Thanksgiving dinner tables. <\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post described it as <b>the third key image of the Bush presidency<\/b> &#8211; alongside Mr Bush with a loudhailer atop the rubble at Ground Zero, and the president declaring the war on Iraq a &#8220;mission accomplished&#8221; on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in May. <\/p>\n<p>But it adds that &#8220;it is too soon to know whether the image of Bush in his Army jacket&#8230; will become a symbol of strong leadership or a symbol of unwarranted bravado&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush back from surprise Iraq trip BBC NEWS The BBC&#8217;s David Bamford, in Washington, says that politically speaking, this was a spectacularly well-planned event, one year ahead of presidential elections. In America the visit is being hailed as a public-relations coup that was a central topic of conversation around the nation&#8217;s Thanksgiving dinner tables. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/turkey-in-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turkey in Iraq<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}