{"id":29874,"date":"2011-12-15T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/leon_panetta_arrives_in_baghdad_for_military_handover_ceremony_as_the_u-s-_\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:20:22","slug":"leon_panetta_arrives_in_baghdad_for_military_handover_ceremony_as_the_u-s-_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29874","title":{"rendered":"Leon Panetta Arrives in Baghdad for Military Handover Ceremony as the U.S. Iraq Mission Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta landed in the Iraqi capital on Thursday for the ceremony officially ending the military mission here and closing out a bloody and controversial chapter of American relations with the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon officials said Mr. Panetta would thank all American service members who served here since the 2003 invasion, and would laud them for \u201cthe remarkable progress we have seen here in Baghdad and across this country.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Panetta also was expected to note that the American effort &#8220;helped the Iraqi people to cast tyranny aside and to offer hope for prosperity and peace to this country\u2019s future generations.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/16\/world\/middleeast\/panetta-in-baghdad-for-iraq-military-handover-ceremony.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta landed in the Iraqi capital on Thursday for the ceremony officially ending the military mission here and closing out a bloody and controversial chapter of American relations with the Islamic world. Pentagon officials said Mr.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29874\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,143,144,564,557,141,203,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-iraq","category-iraq-war","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}