{"id":1029,"date":"2004-06-08T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T06:31:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-08T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T06:31:42","slug":"chalabi-the-pious-shia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/08\/chalabi-the-pious-shia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalabi the pious Shi`a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/what-difference-year-makes.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to The Angry Arab<\/a>, <i>Al-Hayat<\/i> is reporting that some former Iraqi Governing Council members are leaving Iraq, running for their lives, while Chalabi tries to strike a last-ditch pose as a Shi`ite:  <i>&#8220;He sounded like Muqtada As-Sadr today trying to engage in one-upmanship with other Shi`ite leaders, berating the Americans for their violent campaigns in the holy cities, and recounting how he wanted to stay in Najaf to suffer the plight of his Shi`ite brothers.&#8221;<\/i>  I wonder how long Chalabi will survive, stripped of his neocon patrons, before he either flees Iraq or ends up a martyr.  Is there such a thing as a neocon martyr?  He did say he would &#8220;fall on his sword&#8221; for the Bushies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Angry Arab, Al-Hayat is reporting that some former Iraqi Governing Council members are leaving Iraq, running for their lives, while Chalabi tries to strike a last-ditch pose as a Shi`ite: &#8220;He sounded like Muqtada As-Sadr today trying to engage in one-upmanship with other Shi`ite leaders, berating the Americans for their violent campaigns [&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-1029","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\/1029","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=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}