{"id":9318,"date":"2011-02-08T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2011-02-06T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:27:58","slug":"iraq-buys-f-16s-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/iraq-buys-f-16s-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Buys F-16s&#8230;or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Stars and Stripes <\/em>notes the inadvertent release of a draft announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/usf-i-iraq-buys-f-16s-wait-never-mind-1.133459\">Iraq had agreed to purchase 18 F-16s<\/a>, something it has wanted for years.\u00a0 As it turns out, the Iraqi government has not yet approved the purchase, making the release premature.<\/p>\n<p>F-16s aren&#8217;t the only things Iraq wants.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey&#8217;d like F-16s and, you know, Polaris submarines and aircraft carriers and a whole bunch of other things,\u201d then-Lt. Gen. David Petraeus told reporters in 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes notes the inadvertent release of a draft announcement that Iraq had agreed to purchase 18 F-16s, something it has wanted for years.\u00a0 As it turns out, the Iraqi government has not yet approved the purchase, making the release premature. F-16s aren&#8217;t the only things Iraq wants. \u201cThey&#8217;d like F-16s and, you know, Polaris submarines and aircraft [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[676,186,5285,52,2],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-david-petraeus","tag-f-16","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-iraq","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}