{"id":1592,"date":"2003-08-11T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T01:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/11\/so-subtle\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:31:08","slug":"so-subtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/11\/so-subtle\/","title":{"rendered":"So subtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13816,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com\\\/wire\\\/US\\\/reuters20030811_261.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040805234653\\\/http:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com:80\\\/wire\\\/US\\\/reuters20030811_261.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 14:12:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 14:12:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13817,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2003_08_10_atrios_archive.html#106062718676365088&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.eschatonblog.com\\\/2003_08_10_atrios_archive.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The 4th Infantry Division said it had launched a new mission, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/reuters20030811_261.html\" title=\"ABCNEWS.com : U.S. Launches New Mission to Hunt Saddam Loyalists\">Operation Ivy Lightning<\/a>, to hunt Saddam loyalists it believed had fled to isolated villages east of Saddam&#8217;s hometown of Tikrit to escape repeated U.S. raids. &#8220;Ivy Lightning is a surgical strike in remote towns&#8230;to isolate and capture non-compliant forces and former regime loyalists who are planning attacks against Coalition forces,&#8221; Lt. Col. William MacDonald told reporters in Tikrit. He said the operation was focusing on the area around Qara Tappa, around 80 miles north of Baghdad.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>peration <strong>I<\/strong>vy <strong>L<\/strong>ightening, huh? Gee, I&#8217;m so glad that we keep getting assured that this war had nothing to do with <strong>oil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_08_10_atrios_archive.html#106062718676365088\" title=\"Fun acronyms\">Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>O<\/strong>peration <strong>I<\/strong>vy <strong>L<\/strong>ightening, huh? Gee, I&#8217;m so glad that we keep getting assured that this war had nothing to do with <strong>oil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}