{"id":806,"date":"2003-12-15T21:39:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=806"},"modified":"2011-06-05T02:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T07:21:37","slug":"soapbox-mission-accomplished-uhm-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/soapbox-mission-accomplished-uhm-again\/","title":{"rendered":"SoApBoX: Mission Accomplished&#8230; uhm, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/shock\/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0\" height=\"244\" width=\"248\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/shock\/whackatyrant.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"quality value=\" high\"=\"\"><\/param><param name=\"scale\" value=\"exactfit\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><embed src=\"\/shock\/whackatyrant.swf\" quality=\"high\" scale=\"exactfit\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" height=\"244\" width=\"248\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I *TRIED* to be nice. I figured I would stay out of trouble for the next few months so I can fix some things here, I wouldn&#8217;t get political until after the political conventions this summer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I thought my response below was gracious and honest, and then warbloggers had to play let&#8217;s gloat and piss all over the place and litter &#8220;anti-warblogger&#8221; comments, and ruin what was an awesome day for America and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>So in keeping with the &#8220;there&#8217;s an equal and opposite reaction&#8221; law, here&#8217;s the rest of my response of yesterday&#8217;s news:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/mission-accomplished-uhm-again\/\" target=\"offsite\">Mission Accomplished&#8230; uhm, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I *TRIED* to be nice. I figured I would stay out of trouble for the next few months so I can fix some things here, I wouldn&#8217;t get political until after the political conventions this summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,1,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention-trolls","category-basic-stupidity","category-news-gossip","category-political-cannon-fodder","category-site-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SoApBoX: Mission Accomplished... uhm, again - WHUZZUP!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/soapbox-mission-accomplished-uhm-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SoApBoX: Mission Accomplished... uhm, again - WHUZZUP!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I *TRIED* to be nice. 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