{"id":51622,"date":"2014-06-19T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51622"},"modified":"2014-06-18T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T20:44:58","slug":"petraeus-warnings-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51622","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus warnings on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2014\/06\/18\/david-petraeus-issues-warning-about-u-s-military-involvement-in-iraq\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, David Petraeus warned about the use of US military force in Iraq;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf there is to be support for Iraq, it has to be support for a government of Iraq. That is, a government of all the people, and that is representative of and responsive to all elements of Iraq,\u201d Petraeus said, according to The Spectator. \u201cPresident Obama has been quite clear on this: This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight. It has to be a fight of all of Iraq against extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Petraeus\u2019s comments come as Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and other prominent lawmakers call for President Obama to authorize airstrikes in Iraq to break the momentum of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an extreme offshoot of al-Qaeda that has seized several key cities across the country and threatened security in Baghdad, the capital. Ironically, McCain called for Obama\u2019s national security team to be fired last week, and suggested Obama should consult with Petraeus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, in John McCain&#8217;s defense, he&#8217;s an idiot &#8211; his reaction to everything is to fire people as long as they didn&#8217;t or can&#8217;t vote for John McCain. I would listen to almost anyone for advice besides John McCain and his little sock puppet friend Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p>Although Petraeus&#8217; advice is sound, I don&#8217;t see it happening. It&#8217;s the same thing we&#8217;ve been telling Maliki for years and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s in the shit he&#8217;s in now. He promised an inclusive government in 2006, and the promise lasted long enough for the US to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Post, David Petraeus warned about the use of US military force in &hellip; <a title=\"Petraeus warnings on Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51622\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Petraeus warnings on Iraq<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51622","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=51622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}