{"id":47,"date":"2006-12-19T15:23:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-12-19T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T19:23:41","slug":"please-no-surge-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/commentary\/please-no-surge-no-more","title":{"rendered":"Please no surge. No more."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp45.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"> Eugene Robinson&#8217;s column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/18\/AR2006121800945.html\">A &#8216;Surge&#8217; in Wasted Sacrifice<\/a> in today&#8217;s Washington Post is another eloquent voice stating what we all know and need to admit. Continuing Bush&#8217;s plan in Iraq is a continuation of asking people to sacrifice their lives &#8211; sacrifice their lives &#8211; for no good or well-thought-out plan.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/news\/special_packages\/phillycom_teases\/16268686.htm\">Tony Auth&#8217;s cartoon in today&#8217;s Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> that depicts Bush asleep and dreaming of thousands of more troops goign into Iraq carrying a flag labeled Victory. The cartoon carries the caption &#8220;Visions of Sugarplums Danced in His Head.&#8221; Disgusting!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Robinson&#8217;s column A &#8216;Surge&#8217; in Wasted Sacrifice in today&#8217;s Washington Post is another eloquent voice stating what we all know and need to admit. Continuing Bush&#8217;s plan in Iraq is a continuation of asking people to sacrifice their lives &#8211; sacrifice their lives &#8211; for no good or well-thought-out plan. Contrast that with Tony [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}