{"id":170,"date":"2006-10-26T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=170"},"modified":"2006-10-26T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T17:34:27","slug":"the-question-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"The question of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hardly blogged on Iraq since the US\/UK invasion three years ago. This is partly because I feel let down by Blair and Bush over my initial (reluctant) support for the occupation and it is partly because the current situation in Iraq seems so intractable. However, I spent a couple of hours at the House of Commons today with Gary Kent, Director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk\/\">Labour Friends of Iraq<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve decided that it&#8217;s time I ventured some views.<br \/>\nSo, over the next few weeks, I&#8217;ll offer some observations and ideas on this blog. Meanwhile I want to draw attention to the little-reported fact that there is a trade union movement in Iraq that is struggling to bring about fairness at work and a non-sectarian approach to the country&#8217;s problems. It is is led by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqitradeunions.org\/en\/\">Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hardly blogged on Iraq since the US\/UK invasion three years ago. This is partly because I feel let down by Blair and Bush over my initial (reluctant) support for the occupation and it is partly because the current situation in Iraq seems so intractable. However, I spent a couple of hours at the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}