{"id":1600,"date":"2005-01-03T00:22:36","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T07:22:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-03T00:22:36","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T07:22:36","slug":"hakim-chalabi-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/03\/hakim-chalabi-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakim-Chalabi press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sistani-endorsed United Iraqi Alliance, represented by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and Ahmed Chalabi held a press conference today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/print_ipub.php?file=\/articles\/2005\/01\/02\/news\/iraq.html\" target=\"_blank\">The shocker:<\/a><b> <em>&#8220;We will need American forces to be in Iraq for the foreseeable future.&#8221;<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>That position is likely to be a surprise to  average Shiite voters, who largely believe that the election is all about kicking the occupation out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sistani-endorsed United Iraqi Alliance, represented by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim and Ahmed Chalabi held a press conference today. The shocker: &#8220;We will need American forces to be in Iraq for the foreseeable future.&#8221; That position is likely to be a surprise to average Shiite voters, who largely believe that the election is all about kicking the [&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-1600","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\/1600","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=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}