{"id":64,"date":"2006-03-31T11:18:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:11:24","slug":"a-native-son-speaks-his-peace-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"A native son speaks his peace on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wisconsin\u00a0native <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthsuperior.com\/mld\/duluthsuperior\/news\/editorial\/14230210.htm\"><strong>Daniel Fanning writes eloquently<\/strong><\/a><strong> in the DNT of his frustration over our flawed policies in Iraq where he was stationed as a first sergeant.<\/strong><strong>In summary:<\/strong><strong><em><strong>&#8220;Throughout my year all over Iraq, I consistently felt a great deal of pride in my fellow soldiers, but I also felt a great deal of shame for the politics and politicians that placed us in such an unfortunate situation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><strong>and yet Serteant Fanning adds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Given the magnitude of this situation, however, we cannot simply pull out immediately, either. I believe a gradual, calculated withdrawal must begin immediately. If we are truly interested in leaving Iraq a better place, we should work just as hard to bring clean water and electricity as we do to bring freedom and democracy.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin\u00a0native Daniel Fanning writes eloquently in the DNT of his frustration over our flawed policies in Iraq where he was stationed as a first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21192,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/21192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}