{"id":1746,"date":"2006-11-10T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2006-11-10T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T14:35:00","slug":"gates-said-he-could-see-troops-withdrawn-by-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/gates-said-he-could-see-troops-withdrawn-by-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates said he could see troops withdrawn by 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new nominee for Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, former president of Texas A&#038;M said last year that he could see the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by 2008.<br \/>\nAccording to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/nationalpost\/story.html?id=29106598-e003-462d-ac30-eda95800d1b8\">Candadian National Post<\/A>, Gates discussed just such a scenario 18 months ago during a seminar at the Panetta Institute at California State University in Monterey.<br \/>\nDuring a round-table discussion with Leon Panetta, chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton, and Sandy Berger, former national security advisor, Mr. Gates expressed his hope for a relatively rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We all hope that it will be quick,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That in a year or two, this government in Iraq will be secure enough that they will be able to invite us to leave and we can do so, leaving behind us a government that can survive and that will be very different from what preceded it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new nominee for Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, former president of Texas A&#038;M said last year that he could see the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq by 2008. According to the Candadian National Post, Gates discussed just such a scenario 18 months ago during a seminar at the Panetta Institute at California State &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/gates-said-he-could-see-troops-withdrawn-by-08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gates said he could see troops withdrawn by 08<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-sa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}