{"id":183,"date":"2006-08-23T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/what-went-wrong-in-iraq-according-to-stratfor\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:10:04","slug":"what-went-wrong-in-iraq-according-to-stratfor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/what-went-wrong-in-iraq-according-to-stratfor\/","title":{"rendered":"“What went wrong” in Iraq according to STRATFOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>‘s some pretty detailed analysis of the current situation in Iraq and the Middle East, from STRATFOR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My nephew Tom pointed me to this site – he’s an Army pilot and commanding officer on the Apache, getting deployed to Iraq next month. So consider me just as mad as ever. Bush really screwed the pooch, and everyone involved in the war, including our men and women in uniform, are paying a heavy price.<\/p>\n

I found it interesting in that you don’t hear this depth of analysis ANYwhere. Why is that? And I still am unsure of any bias of STRATFOR, they’re used by “military personnel and oil executives.” But it reads with authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here‘s some pretty detailed analysis of the current situation in Iraq and the Middle East, from STRATFOR. My nephew Tom pointed me to this site – he’s an Army pilot and commanding officer on the Apache, getting deployed to Iraq next month. So consider me just as mad as ever. Bush really screwed the pooch, … Continue reading “What went wrong” in Iraq according to STRATFOR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-rants-and-raves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":72,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/wheres-the-enemy-oh-hes-running-the-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":183,"position":0},"title":"War. 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