{"id":4169,"date":"2008-09-14T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:08","slug":"president-bush-meets-with-president-talabani-of-iraq-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/14\/president-bush-meets-with-president-talabani-of-iraq-2\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bush Meets with President Talabani of Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, September 10, 2008<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/09\/20080910-3.html\"><\/span> President Bush met with the Big Sister of the Year at the White House. Later, President Bush met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to discuss progress in his country, where violence is down to its lowest point since the spring of 2004. Civilian deaths are down, sectarian killings are down, suicide bombings are down, and normal life is returning to communities across the country. The Iraqi government has passed budgets and major pieces of legislation. <!--WEDNESDAY LINKS--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/09\/20080910-3.html\">President Bush Meets with President Talabani of Iraq <\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/infocus\/iraq\/\">In Focus: Iraq <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/infocus\/globaldiplomacy\/\">In Focus: Global Diplomacy <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 10, 2008 President Bush met with the Big Sister of the Year at the White House. Later, President Bush met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to discuss progress in his country, where violence is down to its lowest point since the spring of 2004. Civilian deaths are down, sectarian killings are down, suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,61],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraq","category-middle-east","tag-kurdish-hizbullah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}