{"id":1753,"date":"2007-12-07T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2007-12-07T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:04:12","slug":"1753","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Turning The Tide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Democrat joins John Murtha in abandoning the&#8230;er, John Murtha anti-war slag.\u00a0 It&#8217;s North Dakota&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxmc.com\/News\/187223.asp\">Earl Pomeroy<\/a>, and he agrees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pomeroy says the incidence of roadside bombings and other violence is down because Iraqis are taking a more vigorous part in attacking factions that are causing violence in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman says his visit proved to him that General David Patraeus, who is in charge of American forces in Iraq, has done an extraordinary job&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Rep. Earl Pomeroy, -D- ND) &#8220;I think he i incorporating four years of lessons learned from mistakes made in a dramatically improved US performance. We have had outstanding performance by our soldiers all along, but the plan has not always been one that has been very well equipped to meet the unfolding circumstance in Iraq. I think now we&#8217;re on the right track in Iraq thanks to the leadership of General Patraeus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is something conservatives &#8211; myself included &#8211; can agaree on wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n<p>Further proof that North Dakota natives <em>are <\/em>smarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Democrat joins John Murtha in abandoning the&#8230;er, John Murtha anti-war slag.\u00a0 It&#8217;s North Dakota&#8217;s Earl Pomeroy, and he agrees: Pomeroy says the incidence of roadside bombings and other violence is down because Iraqis are taking a more vigorous part in attacking factions that are causing violence in the nation. The congressman says his visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}