{"id":2179,"date":"2008-07-31T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2008-07-31T12:12:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:12:54","slug":"combat-tours-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Combat tours cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President today announced that because of the success of our troops in the Middle East, the enemy is on the run and the troops can count on shorter tours (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121750587972600601.html?mod=world_news_whats_news\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal <\/a>link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President George W. Bush declared progress in the Iraq war Thursday, saying terrorists &#8220;are on the run&#8221; and a generally improved security environment should permit further U.S. troop reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on the Colonnade outside the Oval Office of the White House, President Bush also announced that effective Thursday, the duration of troop tours in Iraq will be cut from 15 months to 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bush said this reduction &#8220;will relieve the burden on our forces and it will make life easier for our wonderful military families.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With no help from Democrats, with no help from the cutthroat back-stabbing sociopaths of the IVAW and Veterans For\u00a0 Peace, no help from the drama queens at Code Pink, no help from the filthy hippies of ANSWER. With no help from Barack Obama, no help from Chuck Hagel. With no help from Harry Reid, no help from Nancy Pelosi. With no help from phony soldier John Murtha, no help from phony earthling Dennis Kucinich. No help from Jim Webb no help from Ron Paul..<\/p>\n<p>The troops and the President, all by themselves, did what nearly every media outlet said they couldn&#8217;t. Against the odds, against the pseudo-experts.<\/p>\n<p>They can all claim credit and change their stories from now until the cows come home, but the troops know who stood with them. And who didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President today announced that because of the success of our troops in the Middle East, &hellip; <a title=\"Combat tours cut\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2179\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Combat tours cut<\/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":[8,46,43,37,22,6,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-barack-obama","category-code-pink","category-ivaw","category-john-murtha","category-media","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}