{"id":10050,"date":"2011-06-12T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T17:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2011-06-12T09:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T17:41:52","slug":"imperial-hypocrisy-u-s-calls-iraq-criminals-and-seeks-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/imperial-hypocrisy-u-s-calls-iraq-criminals-and-seeks-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Hypocrisy: U.S. calls Iraq criminal and seeks reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This perfectly exemplifies the intensity of American nationalism, which makes U.S. officials incapable of recognizing the principle of universality. Hypocrite is a much simpler term: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2011\/06\/11\/115645\/us-congressional-delegation-sets.html\">focus on the crimes of others, ignore your own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During an hour and 40 minute meeting Friday with Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, [California Rep. Dana] Rohrabacher informed the Iraqi leader that his House subcommittee was investigating the killing by Iraqi troops of 35 Iranian dissidents on Iraqi soil in April&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County conservative, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigations, later told reporters that the &#8220;massacre&#8221; was probably a crime against humanity. The charge, which often refers to a massive crime against civilians, was first leveled against accused Nazi war criminals during the Nuremburg Tribunal after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Rohrabacher also asked Iraq to consider at a later stage repaying some of the costs of the 2003 U.S. invasion and the occupation that followed. Iraq&#8217;s government spokesman publicly responded that Iraq would pay not &#8220;a cent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So as we invade, overthrow and occupy Iraq, ravaging the country with careless savagery in countless instances and kill &#8211; by conservative estimates &#8211; well over one hundred thousand people, the Iraqi troops (trained, funded and\u00a0equipped\u00a0by us) are the ones who have committed a crime against humanity on 35 Iranians and additionally need to pay reparations to their dominating military occupiers. What a world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This perfectly exemplifies the intensity of American nationalism, which makes U.S. officials incapable of recognizing the principle of universality. Hypocrite is a much simpler term: focus on the crimes of others, ignore your own. During an hour and 40 minute meeting Friday with Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, [California Rep. Dana] Rohrabacher informed the Iraqi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}