{"id":690,"date":"2008-03-19T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-03-19T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T17:17:00","slug":"unhappy-fifth-anniversary-of-the-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/03\/19\/unhappy-fifth-anniversary-of-the-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R-FDRbMqKMI\/AAAAAAAABJc\/sDe7w5G6_M8\/s1600-h\/images-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R-FDRbMqKMI\/AAAAAAAABJc\/sDe7w5G6_M8\/s200\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Well, it&#8217;s five years and counting and what is there to say.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A LOT.  <\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/girlsailor07.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br \/>Sara Gould of the Ms. Foundation, for one, has a great oped up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ignitingchange08.blogspot.com\/\">org&#8217;s blog<\/a> which begins with a good ole Albert Einstein quote: &#8220;The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.&#8221; Yesss.<\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/3532\">Women&#8217;s eNews,<\/a> there&#8217;s an interesting piece offering a women&#8217;s perspective on military service and its aftermath.  One returning female vet offers advice to the next commander in chief: &#8220;I would request that they limit deployments and the time you have between deployments&#8230;.That is really hurting morale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2psk22\">MOMocrats<\/a> are stirring it up today too.  (Thanks, Joanne, for the heads up!)<\/p>\n<p>Just in case anyone&#8217;s craving a refresher, here&#8217;s a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2008\/03\/18\/world\/middleeast\/20080319_IRAQWAR_TIMELINE.html\">timeline <\/a>of what&#8217;s gone down since we invaded.  On Jan. 9, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/10\/world\/middleeast\/10casualties.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world&amp;oref=slogin\">World Health Organization estimated<\/a> that the actual number of Iraqi civilian deaths due to the war lo these past 5 years is at 151,000.  What&#8217;cha going to do about it, George, tough guy, huh?  Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s five years and counting and what is there to say. A LOT. Sara Gould of the Ms. Foundation, for one, has a great oped up at the org&#8217;s blog which begins with a good ole Albert Einstein quote: &#8220;The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}