{"id":1463,"date":"2003-04-07T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2003-04-07T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T20:01:00","slug":"pot-meet-kettle-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/07\/16\/01\/pot-meet-kettle-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot, Meet Kettle, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the US\/UK military and political leaders have been making a great sound and fury about how some of those dastardly Iraqis have been wearing civilian clothes while daring, <i>daring!<\/i> to fight back. So I was again unsurprised to read this report about US Special Forces fighting out of uniform. Apparently, they wear US Army underwear or something, so that&#8217;s alright then.<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&#038;slug=War%20Civilian%20Clothes\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pentagon on Friday defended the use of some civilian clothes by U.S. special operations forces, a tactic used to help them blend in with the local population &#8230; Asked at a Pentagon press conference why it is OK for American commando troops to take off their uniforms, but a crime when the Iraqis did it, Defense Department spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said she thought American forces wear something that distinguishes them from civilians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_03_23_WeekArchive.php#91233775\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the US\/UK military and political leaders have been making a great sound and fury about how some of those dastardly Iraqis have been wearing civilian clothes while daring, daring! to fight back. So&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}