{"id":1477,"date":"2003-09-22T17:58:39","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/22\/bremmer-addresses-congress-on-state-of"},"modified":"2003-09-22T17:58:39","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T21:58:39","slug":"bremmer-addresses-congress-on-state-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/22\/bremmer-addresses-congress-on-state-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Bremmer Addresses Congress on State of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1211'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p align=\"left\"><font color=\"#990000\" size=\"+1\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bushy.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"182\" align=\"left\"><\/strong><\/font>I<br \/>\n        just heard Sheppard Smith on Fox News announce that US Administrator<br \/>\n        L. Paul Bremer was in Washington today, filling the US Congress in<br \/>\n        on the State of Iraq. Wow! That&#8217;s news!<\/p>\n<p>        I just have one question: When did they decide to make Iraq the 51st<br \/>\n        State, and how did they manage to slip it by the US public? I know I&#8217;m<br \/>\n        not the most alert guy in the world, but I try to stay abreast of the<br \/>\n        major issues of the day, and this is the first I have heard of this one. Eat<br \/>\n        your heart out, Puerto Rico!<\/p>\n<p>        Of course, it is a brilliant stroke, however they did it. Another religious,<br \/>\n        oil-rich state with a healthy fear of immigrants and a tradition of hard<br \/>\n        work<br \/>\n        and ingenuity. It will also be a lot easier to get that $87 billion dollars<br \/>\n        out of Congress now that Iraq is part of the United States. Plus, I bet<br \/>\n        they elect two Republican senators, breaking that pesky deadlock and<br \/>\n        freeing up the Vice President for more important duties than casting<br \/>\n        tiebreakers.<\/p>\n<p>        I am glad to see the administration thinking outside the box, expanding<br \/>\n        its support base, and diversifying the American electorate. Bagdad, of<br \/>\n        course, will become the state capital. Wonder if they need a used monument<br \/>\n        of the Ten Commandments?<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A47783-2003Sep22.html\">from<br \/>\n      the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard Sheppard Smith on Fox News announce that US Administrator L. Paul Bremer was in Washington today, filling the US Congress in on the State of Iraq. Wow! That&#8217;s news! I just have one question: When did they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/22\/bremmer-addresses-congress-on-state-of-iraq\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}