{"id":1767,"date":"2005-02-02T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T04:47:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-02T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T04:47:12","slug":"derailing-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/derailing-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Derailing the elections&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing amusing about this news itself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,10117,12135000-23109,00.html\">Rebels kill 12 Iraqi soldiers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middle-east-online.com\/english\/?id=12581\">Iraq oil pipeline suffers new sabotage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200502\/s1294689.htm\">Three killed in Iraq insurgent attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what is interesting is that the reporters seem at a loss, after months of leading every story about violence in Iraq with, &#8220;In an effort to derail the elections&#8230;&#8221;  <em>Now<\/em> what is the violence supposed to be about?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing amusing about this news itself: Rebels kill 12 Iraqi soldiers Iraq oil pipeline suffers new sabotage Three killed in Iraq insurgent attacks But what is interesting is that the reporters seem at a loss, after months of leading every story about violence in Iraq with, &#8220;In an effort to derail the elections&#8230;&#8221; Now [&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-1767","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\/1767","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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}