{"id":101,"date":"2005-10-05T21:52:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2005-10-05T21:52:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T03:52:46","slug":"did-we-really-free-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/05\/did-we-really-free-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Did we really free Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s parliament has given in to UN and US pressure to modify voting rules in a forthcoming referendum on the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Originally the assembly decided that the two-thirds majority needed in three provinces to defeat the landmark charter would be counted from all registered voters rather than actual voters.<\/p>\n<p>Now the parliament has passed a motion saying that only those who actually vote will be taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>The previous rules would have made it virtually impossible to defeat the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Iraq will be free as long as it lets us call the shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s parliament has given in to UN and US pressure to modify voting rules in a forthcoming referendum on the constitution. Originally the assembly decided that the two-thirds majority needed in three provinces to defeat the landmark charter would be counted from all registered voters rather than actual voters. Now the parliament has passed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}