{"id":202,"date":"2003-10-23T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-23T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T21:00:10","slug":"were-desperate-get-used-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/were-desperate-get-used-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Desperate, Get Used to It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The $36 billion U.S. government telethon for Iraq&#8217;s reconstruction <a href=http:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/031023\/1\/3f898.html>isn&#8217;t going so well<\/a>. Just over a third of that money has been pledged so far, and that&#8217;s counting the EU, Britain, and Japan. <a href=http:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/031023\/1\/3f814.html>The president can suck up to Australia<\/a> all he wants, but given that <a href=http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/151\/as.html#Economy>their GDP<\/a> is about one-seventh the size of <a href=http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/151\/ja.html#Economy>Japan&#8217;s<\/a> (contribution: $5 billion, mostly loans, through 2008), where the war was much less controversial, it ain&#8217;t gonna help. <\/p>\n<p>How long before Dubya&#8217;s trick-or-treating at <a href=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/infocus\/iraq\/news\/20030327-10.html>Tonga&#8217;s<\/a> doorstep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $36 billion U.S. government telethon for Iraq&#8217;s reconstruction isn&#8217;t going so well. Just over a third of that money has been pledged so far, and that&#8217;s counting the EU, Britain, and Japan. The president can suck up to Australia all he wants, but given that their GDP is about one-seventh the size of Japan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-202","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\/202","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}