{"id":1741,"date":"2008-10-18T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2008-10-18T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T08:45:05","slug":"bush-can-still-save-face-by-withdrawing-from-iraq-with-a-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"Bush can still save face by withdrawing from Iraq with a referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls have shown that the majority of Iraqis want US forces out of their country.  Bush, in his last months of his horrendous presidency should at least make life easier for his successor and call for a referendum in Iraq with a simple question.  Should US stay or go.  And most likely Iraqis <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081018\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iraq;_ylt=AllaWnC1mjHYWAc2GQyWX_es0NUE\">will say go<\/a>.  And Bush will say what a wonderful democracy we now have in Iraq, they voted for us to go.  And USA will save American lives and $10bn per month and focus in Afghanistan and the Taliban which should have been the only occupation to begin with and where Al Qaeda was.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1741\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls have shown that the majority of Iraqis want US forces out of their country. Bush, in his last months of his horrendous presidency should at least make life easier for his successor and call for a referendum in Iraq with a simple question. Should US stay or go. And most likely Iraqis will say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}