{"id":519,"date":"2006-12-19T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T14:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=519"},"modified":"2006-12-19T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T14:24:55","slug":"what-is-the-exact-number-of-us-troopsyou-are-willing-to-see-die-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/what-is-the-exact-number-of-us-troopsyou-are-willing-to-see-die-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What is the exact number of US troops\nyou are willing to see die in Iraq?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Boettcher and Michael Cobb,<br \/>\nof the Washington Post, ask in a poll<br \/>\nwith their findings finding 500 deaths the mean number<br \/>\nof acceptable troop deaths. This twosome did not reveal<br \/>\nthe highest number. They did reveal there were zeros,<br \/>\nbut not how many.<\/p>\n<p>While their methods may have been commendable<br \/>\ntheir conclusion was a lie:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the US military stormed into Baghdad,<br \/>\npublic opinion was solidly behind the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shake &#8217;em and wake &#8217;em I say!<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time in American history<br \/>\nof an anti-war movement BEFORE<br \/>\nthe first bomb was dropped BEFORE<br \/>\nthe first life was lost (theirs or ours)<br \/>\nAND the largest world wide anti-war protest<br \/>\nin human history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Boettcher and Michael Cobb, of the Washington Post, ask in a poll with their findings finding 500 deaths the mean number of acceptable troop deaths. This twosome did not reveal the highest number. They did reveal there were zeros, but not how many. While their methods may have been commendable their conclusion was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/what-is-the-exact-number-of-us-troopsyou-are-willing-to-see-die-in-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;What is the exact number of US troops<br \/>\nyou are willing to see die in Iraq?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}