{"id":2341,"date":"2003-04-14T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/an-iraqi-thank-you\/"},"modified":"2003-04-14T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T19:25:41","slug":"an-iraqi-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/14\/an-iraqi-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iraqi thank-you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"The New Republic Online: April 10\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=iraq&#038;s=diary041003\">Kanan Makiya&#8217;s sentiments<\/a> on the day of the liberation are worth remembering:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We thank you people of the great United States for the gift that you have bestowed on us. I cannot promise that we will succeed in making good of it. But I do promise that we will try very hard. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makiya is one of the leaders of the Iraqi National Congress and a good all-around dude.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanan Makiya&#8217;s sentiments on the day of the liberation are worth remembering: We thank you people of the great United States for the gift that you have bestowed on us. I cannot promise that we will succeed in making good of it. But I do promise that we will try very hard. Makiya is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/14\/an-iraqi-thank-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Iraqi thank-you&#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-2341","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-BL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","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=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}