{"id":3481,"date":"2007-09-17T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2007-09-17T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:06:06","slug":"second-ally-to-the-right-and-straight-on-til-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/17\/second-ally-to-the-right-and-straight-on-til-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Ally To The Right, And Straight On &#8216;Til Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent speech on Iraq, Bush said &#8220;We thank the 36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq and the many others who are helping that young democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This assertion&#8211;that there are as many as 36 nations aiding in the Iraqi war&#8211;has some calling the President delusional.  Aside from the US and the United Kingdom, who else is really involved?<\/p>\n<p>Responding to those who question his grip on reality, Bush today enumerated all 36 countires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Poland (don&#8217;t forget!)<\/li>\n<li>Denmark<\/li>\n<li>South Korea<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Czech Republic<\/li>\n<li>Macedonia<\/li>\n<li>Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/li>\n<li>Latveria<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador<\/li>\n<li>Slovakia<\/li>\n<li>Narnia<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria<\/li>\n<li>Romania<\/li>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Quendor<\/li>\n<li>The Shire<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>United Federation of Planets<\/li>\n<li>Cimmeria<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia<\/li>\n<li>Sodor<\/li>\n<li>Singapore<\/li>\n<li>Dagobah<\/li>\n<li>Oz<\/li>\n<li>Mypos<\/li>\n<li>Brobdingnag<\/li>\n<li>Albania<\/li>\n<li>Loompaland<\/li>\n<li>Where The Wild Things Are<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>Mario World 2-3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bush added that these allies are also aiding us in our struggle against Eastasia, with whom we have always been at war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent speech on Iraq, Bush said &#8220;We thank the 36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq and the many others who are helping that young democracy.&#8221; This assertion&#8211;that there are as many as 36 nations aiding in the Iraqi war&#8211;has some calling the President delusional. Aside from the US and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}