{"id":3016,"date":"2008-03-21T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T15:59:12","slug":"britain-will-quit-iraq-and-give-up-the-ghost-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Britain will quit Iraq and &#8216;give up the ghost&#8217; to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Luke Baker in London<br \/>\n<em>Thursday March 20 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" width=\"294\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"left\"><font size=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ghost_175722t.jpg?w=640\" \/>A peace protester, wearing a ghostly &#8216;death-mask&#8217;, taking part in a demonstration in the US capital in Washington, which marked the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Five years after declaring it stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States in sending troops to invade Iraq, Britain is now quietly easing its way out.<\/p>\n<p>Some 150,000 US troops remain in Iraq, but just 4,100 Britons &#8212; a tenth of the British invasion force &#8212; are left, hunkered down in one base. Even those could be withdrawn by the end of this year, British officials have said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/opinion\/analysis\/britain-will-quit-iraq-and-give-up-the-ghost-to-us-1321972.html\">Read the report<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Luke Baker in London Thursday March 20 2008 A peace protester, wearing a ghostly &#8216;death-mask&#8217;, taking part in a demonstration in the US capital in Washington, which marked the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq Five years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ME","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}