{"id":2158,"date":"2010-08-19T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2010-08-19T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:30:12","slug":"homeward_bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"Homeward Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/world\/goodbye-iraq-as-obamas-withdrawal-deadline-nears-last-us-combat-brigade-heads-home-101052024.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;posted an Associated Press article today about the last combat troops that are leaving Iraq.&nbsp; Their combat mission is complete.&nbsp; There will still be 50,000 American troops in Iraq to be called on if needed and Special Forces to help Iraqis find terrorists.&nbsp; I am proud of President George Bush for his willingness to complete the mission in the face of the constant criticism of Democrats in Congress (and occasionally some Republicans).&nbsp; I am proud of the troops that completed the mission and their families for the sacrifices they made.&nbsp; I am concerned, however, that this is a very small number of troops we are leaving in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of Iran is to destabilize Iraq.&nbsp; I fear that because of the small number of troops remaining in Iraq, the Iranians will see an opportunity to create havoc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all the American (and other) soldiers who secured freedom for Iraq.&nbsp; The world is a better place without Saddam Hussein.&nbsp; I hope the people of Iraq will be a stabilizing force for democracy in the Middle East and will be able to enjoy freedom for a long time to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Examiner&nbsp;posted an Associated Press article today about the last combat troops that are leaving Iraq.&nbsp; Their combat mission is complete.&nbsp; There will still be 50,000 American troops in Iraq to be called on if needed and Special Forces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}