{"id":27757,"date":"2011-12-02T06:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27757"},"modified":"2011-12-02T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T11:17:14","slug":"privates-see-the-folly-of-a-timetable-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27757","title":{"rendered":"Privates see the folly of a timetable withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-killed-in-action-20111202,0,5886823.story\">LA Times<\/a> in which even Army privates can see the folly of a time table withdrawal from Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Logan Trainum, Hickman&#8217;s best friend, said David told him troops felt compromised by President Obama&#8217;s announcement in October that U.S. troops in Iraq would be home by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David was frustrated \u2014 he said all the guys were frustrated,&#8221; Trainum said. &#8220;They felt like people were going to make one last try to get them before they left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If [Gold Star Mom] Veronica Hickman could meet Obama, she said, &#8220;I&#8217;d tell him: &#8216;You shouldn&#8217;t have broadcast that everybody would be out by the end of the year. It made them targets. You should have slyly got them out.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But everyone is in such a big rush for the exits, there&#8217;s no time to consider the cost that the troops have to pay for politicians&#8217; campaigning ploys. And the LA Times doesn&#8217;t have to act like they had no part in the whole scheme to get troops killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us a link from the LA Times in which even Army privates can see &hellip; <a title=\"Privates see the folly of a timetable withdrawal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27757\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Privates see the folly of a timetable withdrawal<\/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":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757","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=27757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}