{"id":3038,"date":"2008-11-16T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2008-11-24T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:03:41","slug":"awakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/11\/16\/16\/20\/awakened\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/21935\">Nouri al-Maliki wants US troops out of Iraq. He leads a Shiite coalition comprised of religious parties, including his own Dawa party, which is committed to making Iraq into a Shiite Islamic state. Like his coalition partners, al-Maliki views Iraq&#8217;s Sunnis with deep\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand justifiable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsuspicion. For four years after Saddam&#8217;s fall, Iraqi Sunnis supported an insurgency that branded Shiites as apostates deserving death. Now the Sunnis have thrown their support behind the Awakening, which is portrayed by American politicians, including Senator McCain, as a group of patriotic Iraqis engaged in the fight against al-Qaeda. Iraq&#8217;s Shiite leaders see the Awakening as a Baathist-led organization that rejects Iraq&#8217;s new Shiite-led order\u00e2\u20ac\u201dan accurate description.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nouri al-Maliki wants US troops out of Iraq. He leads a Shiite coalition comprised of religious parties, including his own Dawa party, which is committed to making Iraq into a Shiite Islamic state. Like&#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":[194,37,996,997,590],"tags":[1401,999,1376,998,1789,1790,1449],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaeda","category-iraq","category-nouri-al-maliki","category-shiite","category-sunni","tag-al-qaeda","tag-baathism","tag-iraq","tag-john-mccain","tag-nouri-al-maliki","tag-shiite","tag-sunni"],"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\/3038","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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}