{"id":2141,"date":"2005-06-01T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T23:47:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-01T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T23:47:12","slug":"regime-changers-reduced-to-chanting-slogans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/regime-changers-reduced-to-chanting-slogans\/","title":{"rendered":"Regime-changers reduced to chanting slogans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FT has come up with some <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/3c1c11aa-d202-11d9-8c82-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=c1a5b968-e1ed-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html\">military recruitment numbers<\/a> that are more specific than ones I&#8217;ve seen before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the end of April the army had attracted only 35,926 soldiers towards its goal of 80,000 for the year ending in October. Figures for reserves were even worse: 7,283 towards the target of 22,175.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nSince attacking Afghanistan in 2001 the US has suffered more than 1,800 deaths. Another 13,000 have been wounded, including 6,600 so badly that they were unable to return to duty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of which makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1411355\/posts\">these idiots<\/a> look even stupider than they normally do:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/princeofdarkness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/princeofdarkness.jpg\" title=\"Princeofdarkness\" alt=\"Princeofdarkness\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s the Prince of Darkness himself addressing a FReaker Rally of about 50 people in DC lusting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/ledeen\/ledeen200505310823.asp\">bomb Iran<\/a> into democracy.  Fortunately for the rest of the planet, they&#8217;ve already wrecked the only invasion force at their disposal and none of them would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2005\/5\/31\/17027\/6181\">dream of suiting up themselves.<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT has come up with some military recruitment numbers that are more specific than ones I&#8217;ve seen before: By the end of April the army had attracted only 35,926 soldiers towards its goal of 80,000 for the year ending in October. Figures for reserves were even worse: 7,283 towards the target of 22,175. [&#8230;] Since [&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-2141","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\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}