{"id":2356,"date":"2008-11-24T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/victory-in-iraq-day\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T00:04:08","slug":"victory-in-iraq-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/victory-in-iraq-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory In Iraq Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/vi-day.jpg' alt='VI Day' class='left' \/>I&#8217;m a couple of days late on this, but there is movement in the blogosphere to proclaim last Saturday as &#8220;<strong>VICTORY IN IRAQ<\/strong>&#8221; day. I have placed this logo in the sidebar for a few days with a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/vi_day\/\">Victory in Iraq<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Despite clear signals from the military and others in a position to know that the war is won, you won&#8217;t see or hear much from the media. Congress won&#8217;t be declaring victory. The talking heads from the left will continue to trivialize the tremendous effect that the surge had in securing Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, the men and women of our armed forces that took part in this significant achievement will be coming home to the complacent masses who don&#8217;t know why they voted the way they did except it &#8216;felt right.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>We commend our armed forces and wish the best for them as they return to their civilian or military regular jobs. Good work folks, and God Speed.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/glms.htohananet.com\/\">Kini<\/a> who put the bug in our ear about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a couple of days late on this, but there is movement in the blogosphere to proclaim last Saturday as &#8220;VICTORY IN IRAQ&#8221; day. I have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-war-on-terror","category-media","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}