{"id":28627,"date":"2012-02-06T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2012-02-06T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:27:04","slug":"no-parade-but-a-state-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28627","title":{"rendered":"No parade, but a state dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration decided that there won&#8217;t be a parade from veterans of the Iraq War, but there will be a victory lap in the White House i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/story\/2012-02-05\/iraq-veterans-obama-dinner\/52976580\/1\">n the form of a state dinner<\/a> later this month;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The core theme is the common fighting man or woman, said Douglas Wilson, Pentagon public affairs chief.<\/p>\n<p>The intent is for those invited \u2014 with guests, numbering more than 200 \u2014 to represent the 1.5 million who fought in a nine-year-war that left nearly 4,500 dead and 32,000 wounded, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know most of you don&#8217;t care about a parade, but this is clearly a campaign maneuver to take credit for the end of the war, the war that this administration had little to do with ending. <\/p>\n<p>There seems to be some sour grapes involved in the state dinner, too;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Factions led by the 200,000-member Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America are pushing for a ticker-tape parade in New York City, the USA&#8217;s ritual celebration for heroes. &#8220;That (dinner) is a nice effort. The problem is what do you tell everybody outside that 200 who want to be a part of this,&#8221; Executive Director Paul Reickhoff said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that Reickhoff either isn&#8217;t getting an invitation, or has his heart set on marching at the head of the parade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration decided that there won&#8217;t be a parade from veterans of the Iraq War, &hellip; <a title=\"No parade, but a state dinner\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28627\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No parade, but a state dinner<\/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":[46,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-iava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627","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=28627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}