{"id":3288,"date":"2007-02-18T04:19:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/darn-ungrateful-iraqis\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T04:19:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T11:19:48","slug":"darn-ungrateful-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/darn-ungrateful-iraqis\/","title":{"rendered":"Darn Ungrateful Iraqis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State of the United States of America is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2007\/02\/17\/national\/w102537S91.DTL\">shocked, angered and surprised<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/martin-smith\/\">Mahdi Army and Badr Corps milita men she hired<\/a> won&#8217;t invade their own neighborhoods and kill themselves. From the AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"articlebody\">Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Iraqi leaders Saturday that the Baghdad security operation needs to &#8220;rise above sectarianism&#8221; and noted that no U.S. or Iraqi forces have yet moved into the capital&#8217;s major Shiite militia stronghold, an Iraqi official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The official, who was familiar with the discussions, said Rice told Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that the initial stage of the crackdown, which began Wednesday, appeared to focus on Sunni areas and had left Sadr City, stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia, nearly untouched.<\/p>\n<p>The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release the information to the media.<\/p>\n<p>He said Rice stopped short of accusing the Iraqis of displaying pro-Shiite bias in the operation and said it appeared that the security crackdown was going well.<\/p>\n<p>Top Sunni politicians have also complained that Sunni neighborhoods have been targeted for raids and searches while Sadr City and other Shiite militia hideouts have been spared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How can these people continue to accept our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/crossroads\/about\/show_gangs_of_iraq.html\">money, weapons and training<\/a> in good conscience?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State of the United States of America is shocked, angered and surprised that the Mahdi Army and Badr Corps milita men she hired won&#8217;t invade their own neighborhoods and kill themselves. From the AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Iraqi leaders Saturday that the Baghdad security operation needs to &#8220;rise above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-3288","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\/3288","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}