{"id":453,"date":"2005-11-29T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=453"},"modified":"2005-11-29T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T16:59:54","slug":"lieberman-sky-isnt-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman: Sky Isn&#8217;t Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Lieberman is one of the few Democrats I actually admire.  He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/005860.php\">doesn&#8217;t lower himself<\/a> to the pathetic partisan hysteria of his fellows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Lieberman of Connecticut, fresh from a two-day visit to Iraq over the Thanksgiving holiday, said yesterday he was hopeful American forces could begin a &#8220;significant&#8221; withdrawal by the end of next year or in 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The country is now in reach of going from Saddam Hussein to self-government and, I&#8217;d add, self-protection,&#8221; the Democrat said in a conference call with reporters. &#8220;That would be a remarkable transformation.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Lieberman has visited Iraq four times in 17 months. He said there are signs life is returning to normal, including a profusion of cell phones and satellite TV dishes on rooftops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;About two-thirds of the country is in really pretty good shape,&#8221; he said, noting most attacks are in the so-called &#8220;Sunni Triangle&#8221; region. &#8220;Overall, I came back encouraged.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Lieberman is one of the few Democrats I actually admire. He doesn&#8217;t lower himself to the pathetic partisan hysteria of his fellows: Senator Lieberman of Connecticut, fresh from a two-day visit to Iraq over the Thanksgiving holiday, said yesterday he was hopeful American forces could begin a &#8220;significant&#8221; withdrawal by the end of next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lieberman: Sky Isn&#8217;t Falling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}