{"id":45,"date":"2004-05-10T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2004-05-10T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T04:52:00","slug":"pointers-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2004\/05\/10\/pointers-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointers: Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/17103\">How to Get Out of Iraq<\/a>, By Peter W. Galbraith. Quoth he: &#8220;Early in 2005, Iraq will likely see a clash between an elected Shiite-dominated central government trying to override the interim constitution in order to impose its will on the entire country, and a Kurdistan government insistent on preserving the de facto independent status Kurdistan has enjoyed for thirteen years. Complicating the political struggle is a bitter territorial dispute over the oil-rich province of Kirkuk involving Kurds, Sunni Arabs, Shiite Arabs, Sunni Turkmen, and Shiite Turkmen. It is a formula for civil war.&#8221; (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jrobb.mindplex.org\/2004\/05\/09.html#a4700\">John Robb<\/a>) # <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agonist.org\/annex\/taguba.htm\">copy<\/a> of the US military&#8217;s leaked Taguba report into the &#8216;mistreatment&#8217; of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Get Out of Iraq, By Peter W. Galbraith. Quoth he: &#8220;Early in 2005, Iraq will likely see a clash between an elected Shiite-dominated central government trying to override the interim constitution in order to impose its will on the entire country, and a Kurdistan government insistent on preserving the de facto independent status &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2004\/05\/10\/pointers-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pointers: Iraq&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}