{"id":20267,"date":"2010-08-25T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20267"},"modified":"2010-08-25T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:57:59","slug":"mission-in-iraq-changes-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20267","title":{"rendered":"Mission in Iraq changes&#8230;not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/soldiers-remaining-in-iraq-expect-little-will-change-as-mission-evolves-1.115926\">Stars &#038; Stripes <\/a>challenges the general impression that combat operations will end in Iraq.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than a few U.S. soldiers said they were offended by the implication that the danger somehow vanishes when Operation Iraqi Freedom becomes Operation New Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess that means we\u2019re not going to get blown up anymore,\u201d was the deadpan response from 1st Lt. Ryan McAlister, with the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, who commands a rough-hewn U.S. outpost near Mosul.<\/p>\n<p>The news has been confusing for both troops and some in the U.S. awaiting their loved ones\u2019 return from war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to tell my folks to cancel a welcome home party,\u201d said Cpl. Felmen Spencer, 26, of Jacksonville, Ark., who is also with the Apache Troop.<\/p>\n<p>His parents thought the announcement meant he would be coming home immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The what the Hell did Joe Bite-Me mean when he said &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Foreign-Policy\/2010\/0823\/Mission-accomplished-Joe-Biden-gives-upbeat-assessment-of-Iraq\">politics, not war has broken out in Iraq<\/a>&#8221; to the VFW Convention two days ago? I guess Bite-Me&#8217;s job is to be a cheerleader for all of the fumbles of this administration. That&#8217;s not spin, it&#8217;s outright lies.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that has changed is troop levels, meaning less troops are facing the same amount of danger in outlying areas.<\/p>\n<p>Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100825\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iraq\">Associated Press<\/a> has noticed a rise in attacks on Iraqis since the absence of US troops is noticable;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bombers killed 53 Iraqis in nearly two dozen attacks spanning the country Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces in seemingly coordinated strikes the day after the number of U.S. troops fell below 50,000 for the first time since the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Insurgents have been stepping up their attacks on Iraq&#8217;s security forces in recent months as the U.S. has trimmed its military presence in the country. At least half of those killed \u2014 30 \u2014 were Iraqi soldiers and policemen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how the warnings of a timetable turn out to be true. I hear there are plans to have Joe Bite-Me sing us all to sleep every night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes challenges the general impression that combat operations will end in Iraq. More than &hellip; <a title=\"Mission in Iraq changes&#8230;not so much\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20267\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission in Iraq changes&#8230;not so much<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}