{"id":73062,"date":"2020-01-14T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73062"},"modified":"2020-01-13T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:03:47","slug":"iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73062","title":{"rendered":"Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My Fellow Americans,<br>I&#8217;m pleased to announce a major foreign policy accomplishment.\u00a0 There will be peace in Iraq for the first time this century.\u00a0 By this time next year, there will be no American troops in Iraq.<br>Americans went into Iraq because our intelligence agencies assured us Saddam Hussein as stockpiling nuclear material to use against us.\u00a0 The invasion was a preemptive strike, but it was self-defense, fully justified by the evidence known at the time.<br>We stayed in Iraq to repair the damage we had done, to rebuilt roads and bridges and schools, to protect innocent Iraqis from opportunistic neighbors and militant troublemakers.\u00a0 America is not an imperialist nation.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t conquer territory.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t occupy it longer than we must.<br>Iraq is now a fully functioning liberal democracy, with an elected parliament and civil liberties assured by its government.\u00a0 They no longer need us to hold their hand.\u00a0 The&#8217;re ready to take their place on the world stage as a proud nation.\u00a0\u00a0<br>I&#8217;m ordering all US military forces in Iraq to submit plans to withdraw from Iraqi territory no later than December 31st.<br>Some may say our withdrawal is premature, there are still militants, terrorists, neighbors, troublemakers.\u00a0 But there always will be.\u00a0 Iraq&#8217;s troubles are not our troubles.\u00a0 The territorial, religious and cultural causes of conflict go back millennia.\u00a0 An American president can no more solve them than he can order the seas not to rise. The best he can do is get out of the way so the people involved in the conflict &#8211; Shia and Sunni, Kurds and Persians, Christians and Muslims &#8211; can solve their own problems.<br>Therefore, I declare to you: the war is over, and we won.\u00a0 My strongest congratulations go out to every man and woman who served: you made the world a better place.\u00a0 I&#8217;m proud of you all.<br>Thank you, may God always bless America, and good night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Fellow Americans,I&#8217;m pleased to announce a major foreign policy accomplishment.\u00a0 There will be peace in Iraq for the first time this century.\u00a0 By this time next year, there will be no American troops in Iraq.Americans went into Iraq because our intelligence agencies assured us Saddam Hussein as stockpiling nuclear material to use against us.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73062","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=73062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73063,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73062\/revisions\/73063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}