{"id":309,"date":"2006-12-08T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/12\/08\/iraq-study-group-a-very-dark-possibi"},"modified":"2006-12-08T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T14:03:34","slug":"iraq-study-group-a-very-dark-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/12\/08\/iraq-study-group-a-very-dark-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Study Group: A Very Dark Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the pursuit of bipartisan consensus propagates through the airwaves, a very dark possiblity is also making ripples in the aether. Ed Schulz*, a former republican who now bills himself as &#8216;a liberal with a microphone&#8217;, points out that <strong>W<\/strong> has time to pull troops out of Iraq and in the event of a significant increase in &#8216;civil unrest&#8217; put them back in in time for the 2008 election. &#8220;See? You should have let me stay the course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is this a real possiblity? Consider education, disaster management eg Katrina, prescription drugs, etc., etc. We&#8217;ve seen how someone dedicated to proving that &#8216;government can&#8217;t work&#8217; can &#8216;make it not work&#8217;. Do we really want to trust him to manage a withdrawal he believes can&#8217;t work. There is a risk associated with failing, in the name of bipartisanship, to remove <strong>W<\/strong> from office ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>The heat just went on. It is oil. I see dead people again. Maybe I should call Joe for oil. Is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez\">Hugo<\/a>&#8216;s oil less tainted?<br \/>\n*He&#8217;s on Air America Radio, the Jones Radio Network, and he has his own cul-de-sac just off the information superhighway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the pursuit of bipartisan consensus propagates through the airwaves, a very dark possiblity is also making ripples in the aether. Ed Schulz*, a former republican who now bills himself as &#8216;a liberal with a microphone&#8217;, points out that W has time to pull troops out of Iraq and in the event of a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sand-oil-and-tears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}