{"id":1241,"date":"2007-02-11T23:45:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T07:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2007-02-11T23:45:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T07:45:55","slug":"barack-obama-on-john-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/barack-obama-on-john-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama, on John Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6352785.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Obama, who has described the Iraq war as &#8220;tragic&#8221;, said he was &#8220;flattered&#8221; by Mr Howard&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s flattering that one of George Bush&#8217;s allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops on the ground now, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1,400, so if he is (ready) to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Otherwise it&#8217;s just a bunch of empty rhetoric,&#8221; he added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Mr Obama, who has described the Iraq war as &#8220;tragic&#8221;, said he was &#8220;flattered&#8221; by Mr Howard&#8217;s statement. He said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s flattering that one of George Bush&#8217;s allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced. &#8220;I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops on the ground now, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1,400, so if he is (ready) to fight the good fight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-barack-obama","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-k1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}