{"id":632,"date":"2007-03-27T07:02:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/double-dog-idea\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T13:14:01","slug":"double-dog-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Double Dog Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons Republicans oppose setting a withdrawal date is that it&#8217;ll give terrorists a date to scrawl into their Franklin Covey planners; &#8220;Lay Low Until Today!&#8221;.   They can lay low, hang out in Pakistan, sell <em>naan <\/em>bread and read &#8220;female knee&#8221; pr0n until the day after that date, and then go back to work unimpeded by the US military.<\/p>\n<p>One of the special little men the Democrat voters of this country sent to office has an extra special idea &#8211; cut and run, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/26\/AR2007032602034_pf.html\">don&#8217;t tell anyone exactly when!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one of the more unusual proposals to emerge in the Senate debate on Iraq withdrawal, Sen. Mark Pryor wants to keep any plans for bringing troops home a secret.The Arkansas Democrat is a key holdout on his party&#8217;s proposal to approve $122 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while setting a goal of March 31, 2008, for winding up military operations in Iraq. Unlike the plan&#8217;s Republican opponents, Pryor wants a withdrawal deadline of some kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leave aside that pullling 140,000 troops out of a country isn&#8217;t something one does literally <em>on a single selected date<\/em> (has anyone explained this to Rep. Pryor?) &#8211; his plan for <em>keeping <\/em>the secret&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He just doesn&#8217;t want anyone outside the White House, Congress and the Iraqi government to know what it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah.\u00a0 <em>That <\/em>kind of secret.<br \/>\nDemocrats; still not ready to run a country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons Republicans oppose setting a withdrawal date is that it&#8217;ll give terrorists a date to scrawl into their Franklin Covey planners; &#8220;Lay Low Until Today!&#8221;. They can lay low, hang out in Pakistan, sell naan bread and read &#8220;female knee&#8221; pr0n until the day after that date, and then go back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}