{"id":920,"date":"2004-05-15T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-15T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2004-05-16T02:55:07","slug":"iraqi-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/15\/iraqi-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi self-defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush says U.S troops will stay in Iraq until the Iraqis can defend against &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/article.cfm?objectID=8A1013D6-E87D-4772-A205B65919445920&#038;title=US%20Troops%20to%20Stay%20in%20Iraq%20After%20June%2030%2C%20%20Bush%20Says&#038;catOID=45C9C78F-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&#038;categoryname=USA\" target=\"_blank\">external aggression and internal subversion.<\/a>&#8221;  Apparently that means the Iraqis will have to drive the Americans out themselves.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iraqistonethrowers\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/iraqistonethrowers.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Iraqi Shi&#8217;ite youths throw stones at a U.S. military<br \/> convoy in the center of the most <br \/>populated Shi&#8217;ite district of Al-Sadr city, <br \/>in Baghdad, May 15, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush says U.S troops will stay in Iraq until the Iraqis can defend against &#8220;external aggression and internal subversion.&#8221; Apparently that means the Iraqis will have to drive the Americans out themselves. Iraqi Shi&#8217;ite youths throw stones at a U.S. military convoy in the center of the most populated Shi&#8217;ite district of Al-Sadr city, in [&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-920","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\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}