{"id":1015,"date":"2004-06-04T15:14:51","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-04T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T22:14:51","slug":"iraqi-puppets-please-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/04\/iraqi-puppets-please-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Puppets: Please stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/zebariUN1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/zebariUN1.html','popup','width=450,height=325,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zebariUN\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/zebariUN-thumb.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"144\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><BR><I><em>Please don&#8217;t take our bodyguards away<\/em><\/I><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Astonishingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=5343738\" target=\"_blank\">Hoshyar Zebari, speaking for the New Iraqi Government\u00ae<\/a> tells the UN that the IGCv.2.0 wants the American military to stay in Iraq, to &#8220;keep the peace.&#8221;  One might wonder what &#8220;peace&#8221; there currently is in Iraq to be kept, but that would be cynical, wouldn&#8217;t it?  According to most Iraqis, the Occupation forces are responsible for the lack of peace, but the Puppets are hardly in a position to listen to most Iraqis when their overriding concern is staying alive.\n<\/div>\n<p><BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t take our bodyguards away Astonishingly, Hoshyar Zebari, speaking for the New Iraqi Government\u00ae tells the UN that the IGCv.2.0 wants the American military to stay in Iraq, to &#8220;keep the peace.&#8221; One might wonder what &#8220;peace&#8221; there currently is in Iraq to be kept, but that would be cynical, wouldn&#8217;t it? According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}