{"id":3451,"date":"2005-07-14T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/14\/i-dont-think-its-time-to-leave-iraq-just-yet\/"},"modified":"2005-07-14T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T19:08:58","slug":"i-dont-think-its-time-to-leave-iraq-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/14\/i-dont-think-its-time-to-leave-iraq-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"I don’t think it’s time to leave Iraq just yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWith apologies to the moonbats of the left<\/a>, this story shows why we need to stick around in Iraq a while longer:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Baghdad — Inside the morgue at Kindi Hospital lay the remains of Amjad Kudeer. He was 13 when fragments from a suicide car bomb struck him in the head and chest Wednesday, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n

Outside the door to the refrigerated room, Amjad’s sobbing mother called his name over and over, as if to summon him back to life. Then she looked up and asked: “What did he do to deserve this? They are killing children. Why? Why?”<\/p>\n

Amjad and more than a dozen other children from east Baghdad’s al-Khalij neighborhood made up the majority of the 27 people killed when a suicide bomber drove into a crowd that had gathered around U.S. soldiers who were handing out candy and small toys, police said. The attack also killed one soldier, according to the U.S. military, and wounded at least 50 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rove or no Rove, there are serious things going on in the world and we need to deal with them.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With apologies to the moonbats of the left, this story shows why we need to stick around in Iraq a while longer: Baghdad — Inside the morgue at Kindi Hospital lay the remains of Amjad Kudeer. He was 13 when fragments from a suicide car bomb struck him in the head and chest Wednesday, killing … Continue reading “I don’t think it’s time to leave Iraq just yet”<\/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-3451","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-TF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}