{"id":1317,"date":"2007-09-17T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/09\/best-debate-on-iraq-so-far-by.html"},"modified":"2007-09-17T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T14:57:19","slug":"best-debate-on-iraq-so-far-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/09\/best-debate-on-iraq-so-far-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Debate on Iraq So Far (by Jim Wallis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/blog\/070917_mtp.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\">One of the best debates I have seen about the events of last week and the future of American policy in Iraq was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032608\/\">Sunday\u2019s <em>Meet the Press<\/em> debate between senators John Kerry and John McCain<\/a>, two Vietnam veterans who, although friends, maintain profound and passionate disagreements about the war and what policy makes the most sense for American safety and international security.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032608\/\">Take a look.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best debates I have seen about the events of last week and the future of American policy in Iraq was Sunday\u2019s Meet the Press debate between senators John Kerry and John McCain, two Vietnam veterans who, although friends, maintain profound and passionate disagreements about the war and what policy makes the most&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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