{"id":1157,"date":"2006-03-20T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2006-03-20T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T20:30:00","slug":"war_without_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"War Without End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV><DIV>Today is the third anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, a conflict that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said would last &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/transcripts\/2002\/t11152002_t1114rum.html\">five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn&#8217;t going to last any longer than that<\/A>.&#8221;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>2,318 American soldiers <A href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\/oif\/\">have died<\/A> during Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>7,912 American soldiers <A href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\/oif\/\">have been wounded<\/A>.&nbsp; <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>At least 33,000 <A href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/\">Iraqis have lost their lives<\/A>.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>As of March 31, 2006, Operation Iraqi Freedom will <A href=\"http:\/\/nationalpriorities.org\/index.php?option=com_wrapper&#038;Itemid=182\">cost American taxpayers $250 billion dollars<\/A>.&nbsp; <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/DIV><DIV><IMG alt=mission src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/mission.bmp\"><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Today is the third anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, a conflict that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said would last &#8220;five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn&#8217;t going to last any longer than that.&#8221;&nbsp;2,318 American soldiers have died during Operation Iraqi Freedom.&nbsp;7,912 American soldiers have been wounded.&nbsp; &nbsp;At least <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1157' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-iF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}