{"id":901,"date":"2004-05-11T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-11T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T22:04:41","slug":"us-vs-al-mehdi-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/us-vs-al-mehdi-army\/","title":{"rendered":"US vs. al Mehdi Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/stevegilliard.blogspot.com\/2004_05_11_stevegilliard_archive.html#108427717534085333\" target=\"_blank\">good post by Steve Gilliard <\/a>referencing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2004_05_01_juancole_archive.html#108425521231078024\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Cole<\/a> on the subject of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=5096818\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish refusal to accept the suicide mission to bring al Sadr in &#8220;dead or alive,&#8221; <\/a>which was what the Bushie Americans asked them to do.  Steve points out that the US military is acting as a de facto proxy force for the Shi`a clerics opposed to al Sadr, and how stupid it is to be in that position.  Next up watch for the US to use SCIRI, which most Shi`a think of as Iranian tools, against al Sadr, unleashing a Shi`a-Shi`a civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good post by Steve Gilliard referencing Juan Cole on the subject of the Spanish refusal to accept the suicide mission to bring al Sadr in &#8220;dead or alive,&#8221; which was what the Bushie Americans asked them to do. Steve points out that the US military is acting as a de facto proxy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-901","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\/901","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}