{"id":478,"date":"2004-04-30T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=478"},"modified":"2004-04-30T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:04:34","slug":"on-second-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"On second thought&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.tbo.com\/ap\/breaking\/MGARKD8BOTD.html\">Marines Pull Back From Fallujah as Agreement Reached to Create Local Iraqi Security Force<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) &#8211; Iraqi security forces took over positions from withdrawing U.S. Marines on Friday, and a U.S. official said an agreement had been reached to allow an Iraqi security force to patrol the city and end the monthlong siege. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the 1,100-member force moved into the former Marine positions in southeastern Fallujah and raised the Iraqi flag. <\/p>\n<p>Negotiations were also taking place in the southern city of Najaf, where tribal leaders and police discussed a proposal to end a standoff between soldiers and militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. In a sermon, al-Sadr remained defiant, saying he rejected &#8220;any appeasement with the occupation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The commander of the new force is Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohammed Saleh, a veteran of Saddam&#8217;s Republican Guard. He shook hands with Marine commanders at a post on the southeastern entry to the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recycling former oppressors from Saddam&#8217;s regime as kindred, enlightened defenders of democracy is a go?   Who wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12963\">this script<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/ipecac.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_ipecac_archive.html#108312882038818555\">Ipecac<\/a>]?  Here&#8217;s where these racists chronically err in judgement.  The Iraqi people aren&#8217;t ignorant and tragically, too sadly for them their memories are vivid and long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marines Pull Back From Fallujah as Agreement Reached to Create Local Iraqi Security Force FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) &#8211; Iraqi security forces took over positions from withdrawing U.S. Marines on Friday, and a U.S. official said an agreement had been reached &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}