{"id":26247,"date":"2011-08-19T13:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26247"},"modified":"2011-08-19T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:40:39","slug":"iraqis-to-panetta-we-like-you-guys-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26247","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis to Panetta: We like you guys after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Secretary of Defense says that the Iraqis have already agreed that US troops should stay there beyond 2011 reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/panetta-iraq-has-already-said-yes-to-extended-u-s-presence-1.152633\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six weeks after Panetta became the latest U.S. leader to press Iraq on a formal request, the Pentagon is moving forward, he said, because there is unanimous consent among key Iraqi leaders to address U.S. demands. Those demands include that Iraqis begin negotiating internally what type of U.S. training force they would like, begin a process to select a defense minister, craft a new Status of Forces Agreement and increase operations against Iranian-backed militants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess Code Pink and the Iraq Veterans Against the War won&#8217;t be helping the Obama campaign next year. And this kind of makes Dahlia Wasfi&#8217;s message empty, too. Exit question to Ward Reilly&#8230;is it still an occupation when the host country asks you to extend your presence in their nation? <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jeff Schogol for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Secretary of Defense says that the Iraqis have already agreed that US troops should &hellip; <a title=\"Iraqis to Panetta: We like you guys after all\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26247\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraqis to Panetta: We like you guys after all<\/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":[8,43,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247","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=26247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}