{"id":90,"date":"2003-08-23T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T02:58:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-08-23T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2003-08-24T02:58:04","slug":"uncle-sam-wants-you-to-join-his-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/23\/uncle-sam-wants-you-to-join-his-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam Wants You to Join His Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, foreigners are less than wild about the idea. The great Moja, U.S. Army sergeant in Iraq, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turningtables.blogspot.com\/2003_08_17_turningtables_archive.html#106161847920336872\" title=\"thinks he knows why\">thinks he knows why<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>i get the feeling these countries offering their support want to make a good impression&#8230;they want to be seen as professional world powers&#8230;and helpful allies&#8230;but still they are only here&#8230;so far&#8230;in one&#8217;zees and two&#8217;zees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>but i wonder&#8230;how many of my troops would i send from mojaland&#8230;to take the burden off a country that started a war&#8230;and quite possibly bit off more than it&#8217;s &#8216;1st world mouth&#8217; could chew&#8230;how many troops would i be willing to quite possibly sacrifice so that american troops could hop on a plane&#8230;and head back to the great states of america&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What are the odds that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/2862343.stm\" title=\"Spain, Nicaragua, Poland, Ethiopia, or Lithuania\">Spain, Nicaragua, Poland, Ethiopia, or Lithuania<\/a> will adopt the angry orphan we created?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, foreigners are less than wild about the idea. The great Moja, U.S. Army sergeant in Iraq, thinks he knows why: i get the feeling these countries offering their support want to make a good impression&#8230;they want to be seen as professional world powers&#8230;and helpful allies&#8230;but still they are only here&#8230;so far&#8230;in one&#8217;zees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-90","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\/90","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}