{"id":11691,"date":"2007-07-16T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/16\/its-too-darn-hot.html"},"modified":"2014-11-16T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:33:19","slug":"its_too_darn_hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/its_too_darn_hot.html","title":{"rendered":"“It’s too … darn … hot …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose, as I suffer through the project “upper 90s” here in Denver that I ought to have sympathy for the Iraqi Parliament, which is heading toward its August recess.<\/p>\n

While one would think that the US government (the congress of which largely goes back home during the summer, too) would be pressuring the Iraqis to stick to their critical work and milestone-striving and all of that — especially with that magical September deadline<\/strike> round of reports fast approaching for everyone to once again rehash whether it would be less of a disaster for us to stay in Iraq or to leave — the White House is being very compassionate about the whole thing<\/a>, at least so far as the Iraqi government goes..<\/p>\n

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Q Is the Iraqi government and the Iraqi parliament taking the month of August off?<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: Probably, yes. Just not —<\/p>\n

Q They’re taking the entire month of August off, before the September deadline?<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: It looks like they may, yes. Just like the U.S. Congress is.<\/p>\n

Q Have you tried to talk them out of that?<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: You know, it’s 130 degrees in Baghdad in August, I’ll pass on your recommendation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shortly thereafter, with questioning, Snow realized that there were a few other people in Baghdad who weren’t getting the month off just because of the heat.<\/p>\n

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Q Well, Tony, Tony, I’m sorry, that’s — you know — I mean, there are a lot of things that happen by September and it’s 130 degrees for the U.S. military also on the ground —<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: You know, that’s a good point. And it’s 130 degrees for the Iraqi military.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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(via DOF<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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I suppose, as I suffer through the project “upper 90s” here in Denver that I ought to have sympathy for the Iraqi Parliament, which is heading toward its August recess….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[10,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-weather-and-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4038,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/24\/shields_up_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":11691,"position":0},"title":"Shields Up","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Feb-03 9:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Imagine that -- the Iraqi government, which is taking the lead in \"assigning\" voluntary Human Shields who have traveled to Iraq, is more interested in protecting communication centers and oil...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4200,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/20\/thank_heavens_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":11691,"position":1},"title":"Thank heavens","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Jan-03 10:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Realing that the UN inspectors in country are having difficulties finding enough material breaches on their own, Iraq is forming their own teams of inspectors to help out with things....","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5280,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/a_strategy.html","url_meta":{"origin":11691,"position":2},"title":"A strategy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Apr-04 9:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"John Kerry has written a strategy for Iraq, to address critics who say he's been stronger on the second-guessing than the actual leadership thang. 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