{"id":874,"date":"2004-05-05T23:42:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T06:42:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-05T23:42:05","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T06:42:05","slug":"not-enough-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/not-enough-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Soldiers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Anderson, along with four other soldiers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/releases\/2004\/nr20040504-1201.html\">died in a mortar attack<\/a> outside of Fallujah. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/may04\/227221.asp\">His mother desperately asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>&#8220;What is a builder doing there, staying in a hot spot? He shouldn&#8217;t have been there. How do they explain that? . . . I think they&#8217;re running out of soldiers.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Anderson was a part of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14, which is based in Jacksonville, Fla., on mission &#8220;fixing sewage problems and electrical and water systems in Iraq.&#8221;  Strange that non-combat Marines would be fixing things in a besieged city that was for a few weeks under American bombardment.  Perhaps Anderson&#8217;s mother is right.  It would explain the recent announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/international.cfm?id=510562004\">47,000 more troops are headed for Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Anderson, along with four other soldiers, died in a mortar attack outside of Fallujah. His mother desperately asks: &#8220;What is a builder doing there, staying in a hot spot? He shouldn&#8217;t have been there. How do they explain that? . . . I think they&#8217;re running out of soldiers.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-874","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\/874","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}