{"id":414,"date":"2008-06-02T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2008-06-02T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T10:23:12","slug":"australia-ends-iraq-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/australia-ends-iraq-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia ends Iraq combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7430600.stm\">ended its combat operations there<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong> About 300 Australians will remain inside Iraq on logistical and air surveillance duties. This withdrawal is  in line with a promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who won the election in November.\u00a0 He said the Iraq deployment was making Australia more of a terrorist target.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s proven that less troops and more teachers and engineers is the way to rebuild Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia, one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, has ended its combat operations there.\u00a0 About 300 Australians will remain inside Iraq on logistical and air surveillance duties. This withdrawal is in line with a promise by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who won the election in November.\u00a0 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/australia-ends-iraq-combat\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia ends Iraq combat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}