{"id":2197,"date":"2003-02-17T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2003-02-17T20:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/what-the-iraqis-want\/"},"modified":"2003-02-17T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2003-02-17T20:28:55","slug":"what-the-iraqis-want-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/17\/what-the-iraqis-want-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Iraqis want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/michaeltotten.blogspot.com\/2003_02_16_michaeltotten_archive.html#90332830\">Michael J. Totten<\/a> comments on <a title=\"Argument\" href=\"http:\/\/argument.independent.co.uk\/regular_columnists\/johann_hari\/story.jsp?story=378429\">this article from the Independent<\/a> on what the Iraqis (remember them?) actually want:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So did the people of Iraq plead for us to take to the streets to stop this war? No &#8212; the opposite. Even in a country where the price for this kind of dissidence is often torture and murder, large numbers explained they want the Americans and British to help them dislodge Saddam through war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish more of our &#8220;anti-war&#8221; people could read the British press.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Totten comments on this article from the Independent on what the Iraqis (remember them?) actually want: So did the people of Iraq plead for us to take to the streets to stop this war? No &#8212; the opposite. Even in a country where the price for this kind of dissidence is often torture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/17\/what-the-iraqis-want-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the Iraqis want&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-zr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}