{"id":27933,"date":"2011-12-15T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27933"},"modified":"2011-12-15T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:07:41","slug":"well-glad-we-planned-that-withdrawal-so-extensively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27933","title":{"rendered":"Well, glad we planned that withdrawal so extensively"},"content":{"rendered":"

From NYT:<\/a><\/p>\n

BAGHDAD \u2014 One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth and began to give secret interviews discussing one of the most horrific episodes of America\u2019s time in Iraq: the 2005 massacre by Marines of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, whether it\u2019s a result of our action or other action, you know, discovering 20 bodies, throats slit, 20 bodies, you know, beheaded, 20 bodies here, 20 bodies there,\u201d Col. Thomas Cariker, a commander in Anbar Province at the time, told investigators as he described the chaos of Iraq. At times, he said, deaths were caused by \u201cgrenade attacks on a checkpoint and, you know, collateral with civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered along with reams of other classified documents, including military maps showing helicopter routes and radar capabilities, by a reporter for The New York Times at a junkyard outside Baghdad. An attendant was burning them as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think about all I have to add is…..um…Holy Sheepshit are you effen kidding me?<\/p>\n

I care less about the actual documents than I do us just leaving secret shit all around. It’s like when I leave the house and the wife invariably leaves the TV for the dog, who apparently has an innate desire to catch up on the news of SportsCenter. Um, no. Mr. Electricity gets shut off. I would say the first rule of international fight club should be, “burn all the shit before you leave.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From NYT: BAGHDAD \u2014 One by one, the Marines sat down, swore to tell the truth … Well, glad we planned that withdrawal so extensively<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27933","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}