{"id":161,"date":"2008-03-19T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/five-years-into-the-iraq-war\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:55:18","slug":"five-years-into-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Five Years into the Iraq War&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have some extra time today, you should definitely read this article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/primary_sources\/2008\/03\/19\/byrd\/\">Salon<\/a>. It&#8217;s a transcript of a couple of speeches given five years ago by Senators Byrd and McCain on the Senate floor hours before the initial attack. It&#8217;s fascinating to read &#8212; not a hindsight interpretation, but actual thoughts and feelings on the day. Turns out all history lessons don&#8217;t have to be ancient history lessons&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Slight Disclaimer: Salon is selling this somewhat as \u201cByrd was right; McCain was wrong.\u201d Yeah, it\u2019s leading the witness. (That sells web hits.) But the real point of interest, I think, is how eloquently both men plead their concerns for their country, yet have very different views of what should be done. Draw your own conclusions on right and wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have some extra time today, you should definitely read this article in Salon. It&#8217;s a transcript of a couple of speeches given five years ago by Senators Byrd and McCain on the Senate floor hours before the initial attack. It&#8217;s fascinating to read &#8212; not a hindsight interpretation, but actual thoughts and feelings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}