{"id":405,"date":"2004-04-05T01:42:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-05T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:33","slug":"its_a_battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"It’s A Battle<\/a>."},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t remotely the last one, or even the worst that we will face. Resolve and sitzfleisch<\/a> are what’s called for at this point.<\/p>\n

Here’s where it started<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In an ominous development that threatens to widen the rift between Iraq’s Shi’ite majority and the occupation forces, Sadr told his supporters yesterday to “terrorise” the enemy as demonstrations were now pointless.<\/p>\n

“There is no use for demonstrations, as your enemy loves to terrify and suppress opinions, and despises people,” Sadr said in a statement distributed by his office in Kufa, south of Baghdad.<\/p>\n

But Shi’ite spiritual leader Ali Al Sistani appealed for calm and urged Shi’ite demonstrators to resolve their differences with coalition forces through negotiation.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More as it develops…and my thoughts are with the troops and innocent civilians. May this pass quickly and safely for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t remotely the last one, or even the worst that we will face. Resolve and sitzfleisch are what’s called for at this point. Here’s where it started: In an ominous development that threatens to widen the rift between Iraq’s Shi’ite majority and the occupation forces, Sadr told his supporters yesterday to “terrorise” the enemy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}