{"id":23573,"date":"2014-08-15T07:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23573"},"modified":"2014-08-15T07:53:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T11:53:49","slug":"an-american-general-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23573","title":{"rendered":"An American General Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video was posted at on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UF-zPgkCJEc\" target=\"_blank\">You Tube<\/a> on July 22nd. We can debate the appropriateness of a high-ranking <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Officer (armed forces)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Officer_%28armed_forces%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">military officer<\/a> making these statements. What we can&#8217;t debate is the accuracy of his statement. Thank God for the integrity and patriotism of our military officers&#8211;both active and retired.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UF-zPgkCJEc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"General officer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">General<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James F. Amos\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_F._Amos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">James Amos<\/a> states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cHad we had the right forces, the right leadership, the right mentoring, the right government, courage\u2026\u201d we might not be in the situation we are in, claims the General. \u201cI find it hard to believe, knowing how <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.3333333333,44.4333333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=33.3333333333,44.4333333333 (Iraq)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Iraq<\/a> looked when we left in 2010\u2026that we would be in the position we\u2019re in today in Iraq.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That statement is included in an <a href=\"http:\/\/americannews.com\/top-marine-general-now-risking-his-career-to-take-down-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">American News<\/a> article about the video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video was posted at on You Tube on July 22nd. We can debate the appropriateness of a high-ranking military officer making these statements. What we can&#8217;t debate is the accuracy of his statement. Thank God for the integrity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7956,947,7957,7958,245,364,285,999],"class_list":["post-23573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-general-james-amos","tag-iraq-withdrawal","tag-james-amos","tag-marine-corps-commandant","tag-middle-east","tag-president-obama","tag-united-states","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23575,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573\/revisions\/23575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}