{"id":132,"date":"2004-12-01T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T18:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=132"},"modified":"2004-12-01T18:40:39","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T18:40:39","slug":"fallujah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One goal of the Fallujah offensive was to make the city safer for the upcoming elections. But the offensive itself rained so much destruction on the city that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/01\/international\/middleeast\/01reconstruct.html?ex=1259557200&#038;en=e6914e6964f559a2&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">it&#8217;s not clear the city can be rebuilt<\/a> in anything under a year or two. Plus we face the additional burden of trying to tell who is or is not an insurgent among the people wanting to return to Fallujah. This isn&#8217;t something we&#8217;re really good at.<br \/>\nThe U.S. death toll in the Fallujah offensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&#038;storyID=6971702\">has climbed to 71<\/a>. Overall, November was the worst month yet for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&#038;sid=aqksDbPLpyBc&#038;refer=us\">U.S. military deaths<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t seen any definitive count of Iraqi civilian deaths in the Fallujah assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One goal of the Fallujah offensive was to make the city safer for the upcoming elections. But the offensive itself rained so much destruction on the city that it&#8217;s not clear the city can be rebuilt in anything under a year or two. Plus we face the additional burden of trying to tell who is or is not an insurgent among the people wanting to return to Fallujah. This isn&#8217;t something we&#8217;re really good at. The U.S. death toll in the Fallujah offensive has climbed to 71. Overall, November was the worst month yet for U.S. military deaths. I haven&#8217;t <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=132\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-28","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}