{"id":7786,"date":"2010-08-22T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2010-08-22T12:49:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:49:57","slug":"now-comes-the-deadly-peace-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/22\/now-comes-the-deadly-peace-for-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Comes the Deadly &#8216;Peace&#8217; for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many Americans the withdrawal of the last &#8220;combat troops&#8221; from Iraq three days ago marked a psychological end to the war. Lost in the self-congratulatory reportage, however, were the approximately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usf-iraq.com\/news\/press-releases\/last-combat-brigade-leaves-iraq-about-52000-troops-remain\">52,000 servicemembers<\/a> who remain behind in various functions, some of them as dangerous as traditional &#8220;combat.&#8221; One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, <a href=\"http:\/\/wire.antiwar.com\/2010\/08\/22\/us-solider-killed-in-rocket-attack-in-iraq\/\">lost his or her life<\/a> during a presumed &#8220;hostile&#8221; rocket attack today in Basra. More deaths will follow until the last servicemember is gone&#8230;if that ever actually occurs.<\/p>\n<p>I would not count on it happening anytime soon though. On the heels of this tragic news, Gen. Ray Odierno, who is the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/wire.antiwar.com\/2010\/08\/22\/us-troops-to-return-only-if-iraqi-forces-fail-5\/\">admitted<\/a> that &#8220;combat troops&#8221; could return if the Iraqi security forces completely fail at their job. Part of that success unfortunately rests on a government that has been unable to seat a new premier thanks to political chicanery from the sitting prime minister. It has been five months and hundreds of civilian deaths since Iraqis tried to elect a new leader and little has changed. Much like little has changed for the American troops who are still stationed in Iraq and still hoping they make it home alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One soldier, the first since the symbolic withdrawal, lost his or her life during a rocket attack today in Basra. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[32,80],"tags":[161,687,256],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-us-military","tag-casualties","tag-iraq","tag-us-casualties"],"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\/7786","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7789,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/7789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}