{"id":1390,"date":"2009-02-04T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2009-02-04T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T17:20:00","slug":"is-the-iraq-war-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Is The Iraq War Won?"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News thinks it’s possible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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An epochal media moment Monday night on ABC’s World News? In an upbeat story about the election in Iraq "with virtually no violence," reporter Jim Sciutto raised the possibility the war is now over — just in time to enable President Barack Obama to fulfill his promise to reduce troop levels — as Sciutto asked a member of Iraq’s parliament: "Is this the end of the war?" Mahmoud Othman cautiously predicted: "If the Iraqi leaders could get together and work together sincerely, yes, this could be the end of the war." <\/p>\n

     Anchor Charles Gibson set up the story by asserting the Saturday elections "mark a major turning point in the Iraqi effort to move forward and the U.S. desire to pull back." Sciutto began with a woman who agreed with his premise "Iraq is ready to move on without the Americans." Sciutto described how "almost every day there’s another handover from American to Iraqi authority" and that "it was Iraqi soldiers who kept polling stations remarkably safe" while check points "used to be manned by American soldiers. Today, they are almost exclusively Iraqi security forces." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thank you George W. Bush, for this "liberation moment".  Thanks especially from Barack Obama who can now safely pull the troops out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC News thinks it’s possible. An epochal media moment Monday night on ABC’s World News? In an upbeat story about the election in Iraq "with virtually no violence," reporter Jim Sciutto raised the possibility the war is now over — just in time to enable President Barack Obama to fulfill his promise to reduce troop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,51,52,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t