{"id":116,"date":"2003-09-24T20:33:44","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T03:33:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-09-24T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T03:33:44","slug":"the-american-way-of-getting-rid-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/the-american-way-of-getting-rid-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Way of &#8220;Getting Rid of People&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put this up as a comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.affbrainwash.com\/genehealy\/archives\/008522.php\" title=\"Gene Healy's blog earlier\">Gene Healy&#8217;s blog earlier<\/a>, so I might as well post it here, too. Healy wrote about Bush&#8217;s recent interview with Brit Hume on Fox, and one of the funnier\/scarier moments in the exchange when Bush said that he gets all of his info from Rice and Wolfowitz. Good, but my favorite part was this:<\/p>\n<p><i>HUME: Now the Israelis have indicated that they might get rid of [Arafat] one way or another, exile, killing him. What would be our reaction to that? I mean, we keep hearing that he&#8217;s an enemy of peace, an obstacle to peace, and yet when the Israelis said, well, OK, let&#8217;s get rid of him, the answer up in the U.S. government is, whoa, not so fast. What about it?<\/p>\n<p>BUSH: Well, the best way &#8212; in America, we believe in getting rid of people through a peaceful, orderly process, and the Palestinian people should make that decision by getting a government that represents their will. Because I believe most Palestinians believe in peace.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting rid of people through a peaceful, orderly process&#8221;&#8211; this should be Ashcroft&#8217;s motto for the PATRIOT Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put this up as a comment on Gene Healy&#8217;s blog earlier, so I might as well post it here, too. Healy wrote about Bush&#8217;s recent interview with Brit Hume on Fox, and one of the funnier\/scarier moments in the exchange when Bush said that he gets all of his info from Rice and Wolfowitz. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/116","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}