{"id":3154,"date":"2006-12-18T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/obama-a-peace-candidate-no-way\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T22:53:09","slug":"obama-a-peace-candidate-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/obama-a-peace-candidate-no-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama a Peace Candidate? No way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=10181\">today&#8217;s column<\/a>, a reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wow&#8230; I was just saying that I liked the fact that Obama is anti-war. Guess I was wrong. I believe of all the people who have been mentioned in the news as possible &#8217;08 candidates&#8230; that he is the least pro war next to Kucinich of Ohio. Unfortunately&#8230; only Kucinich has called for an immediate removal of US troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The point is not that Obama\u00c2\u00a0fails to\u00c2\u00a0call for an immediate withdrawal: his position is that he wants to set no deadline, nor even an approximation of one, for Iraqi forces to entirely supplant the U.S. presence.<\/p>\n<p>And we don&#8217;t know what other candidates &#8212; on the Republican side &#8212; might leap into the breach. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\/articles\/2006\/08\/03\/local\/doc44d26d58d31c5993111065.txt\">Chuck Hagel<\/a>, who was calling for starting the withdrawal process in six months this past August &#8212; and don&#8217;t forget third party candidates.\u00c2\u00a0The idea, after all, is to push the idea of a noninterventionist foreign policy, and not any particular candidate or party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to today&#8217;s column, a reader writes: Wow&#8230; I was just saying that I liked the fact that Obama is anti-war. Guess I was wrong. I believe of all the people who have been mentioned in the news as possible &#8217;08 candidates&#8230; that he is the least pro war next to Kucinich of Ohio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-3154","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\/3154","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}