{"id":3517,"date":"2007-05-08T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/gop-congressman-goes-to-iraq-then-goes-antiwar\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:32:02","slug":"gop-congressman-goes-to-iraq-then-goes-antiwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/gop-congressman-goes-to-iraq-then-goes-antiwar\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman Goes to Iraq, then Goes Antiwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) is no stranger to war.  He signed up with the Marines in 1964 and went to Vietnam in the grimmest, bloodiest days of the war. He survived a shot to the chest, and spent the decades afterward studying foreign policy, history, and why nations go to war.<\/p>\n<p>Gilchrest supported the 2002 authorization for war against Iraq:  &#8220;Blessed are the peacemakers who freed Europe from the yoke of Nazism,&#8221; he said in a floor speech. &#8220;Blessed are the peacemakers whose save people of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. It is not a matter for us as peacemakers of if we go into Iraq. It is a matter of when we do it, how we do it, and who we do it with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Within two years of that vote, after taking multiple trips to Iraq, Gilchrest repudiated that decision. He has become a member of the small but vocal antiwar Republican caucus in Congress.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reason <\/em>Magazine&#8217;s David Weigel has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/120067.html\">a revealing in-depth interview with Gilchrest <\/a>today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) is no stranger to war. He signed up with the Marines in 1964 and went to Vietnam in the grimmest, bloodiest days of the war. He survived a shot to the chest, and spent the decades afterward studying foreign policy, history, and why nations go to war. Gilchrest supported the 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-3517","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\/3517","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}