{"id":23844,"date":"2011-06-10T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23844"},"modified":"2011-06-10T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:00:55","slug":"decision-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23844","title":{"rendered":"Decision time"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no voting present on the Iraqi request for troops to remain there (BBC link<\/a>);<\/p>\n

“It’s clear to me that Iraq is considering the possibility of making a request for some kind of [troop] presence to remain there [in Iraq],” Mr Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He said that whether that happened depended on what Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki might ask for.<\/p>\n

But if Baghdad did make such a request, he added, Washington should say yes.<\/p>\n

Mr Panetta did not say how many troops would be involved or what they would do.<\/p>\n

He said there were still some 1,000 al-Qaeda members in Iraq, and the situation remained “fragile”.
\nLeon Panetta at a Senate committee hearing in Washington. Photo: 9 June 2011 Leon Panetta said the situation in Iraq remained “fragile”<\/p>\n

“I believe that we should take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that we protect whatever progress we’ve made there,” Mr Panetta said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Captain Awesome has a choice – pander to his base who he has already thrown under the bus more times than I count, or do what’s right. I’m pretty sure he’s hoping the Iraqis would make the choice for him, but apparently that’s not in the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no voting present on the Iraqi request for troops to remain there (BBC link); “It’s … Decision time<\/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-23844","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\/23844","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=23844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}