{"id":28918,"date":"2012-02-28T18:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28918"},"modified":"2012-02-28T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:59:19","slug":"the-way-it-was-a-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28918","title":{"rendered":"The Way it Was &#8211; A Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gonna abuse my posting\u00a0privilege just a bit&#8230; This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/104571436336880\/\" target=\"_blank\">cause for Doc Bailey<\/a> as I&#8217;ve noted.<\/p>\n<p>I was NOT there, neither was WOTN.<\/p>\n<p>However he puts it together well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waronterrornews.typepad.com\/ps\/2012\/02\/incident-in-new-baghdad-what-really-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\">Incident in Baghdad.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On 12 July 2007, an Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment embarked on a mission to clear Al-Amin District of New Baghdad of Anti-Iraqi Forces, aka Mehdi Militia, aka Jayish al-Mahdi in order to provide freedom of maneuver to Coalition Forces.\u00a0 By 10:20 AM, Baghdad time, they had taken significant amounts of SAF (small arms fire) and RPG (rocket propelled grenade) fire, sporadically.\u00a0 Two AH-64D&#8217;s were in the area and responded.\u00a0 What would happen next would inspire a movie, that would be nominated for an Oscar, but not win one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Now the war is over and in a lot of ways we&#8217;re still fighting it. It is my accretion that despite what many leaders of this very government said publicly or otherwise, we won. We won through the blood sweat and tears of the troops on the ground, that refused to give up.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themadmedic.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/getting-things-right.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doc Bailey<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonna abuse my posting\u00a0privilege just a bit&#8230; This is a cause for Doc Bailey as I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a title=\"The Way it Was &#8211; A Perspective\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28918\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Way it Was &#8211; A Perspective<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}