{"id":26753,"date":"2011-09-29T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26753"},"modified":"2011-09-29T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T20:23:52","slug":"rumor-doctor-will-the-iraqi-government-award-u-s-troops-liberation-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26753","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Doctor: Will the Iraqi government award U.S. troops liberation medals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, Stars &#038; Stripes&#8217; Rumor Doctor ferets out the answer to the question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/the-rumor-doctor\/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348\/will-the-iraqi-government-award-u-s-troops-liberation-medals-1.156445\">Will the Iraqi government award U.S. troops liberation medals?<\/a>&#8221; by going to the source;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After talking to Iraqi government spokesman Dr. Ali al-Dabbagh, it&#8217;s fair to say the answer is a polite \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rumor Doctor mentioned to al-Dabbagh that France and Belgium also issued liberation medals to U.S. troops after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Dabbagh replied diplomatically that while Iraqis appreciate U.S. efforts to topple Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it is the same situation as we had in Europe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Make sure you read the whole article to get the complete answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, Stars &#038; Stripes&#8217; Rumor Doctor ferets out the answer to the question &hellip; <a title=\"Rumor Doctor: Will the Iraqi government award U.S. troops liberation medals?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26753\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumor Doctor: Will the Iraqi government award U.S. troops liberation medals?<\/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":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753","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=26753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}