{"id":1361,"date":"2004-10-14T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-14T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T21:11:05","slug":"mothers-little-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/14\/mothers-little-helper\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Little Helper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rolling Stones 1966 hit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ckdhr.com\/hrose\/songs\/mothers_little_helper.html\">&#8220;Mother&#8217;s Little Helper,&#8221;<\/a> was a warning about addiction to Valium, a tranquilizer used by a legion of western women &#8220;&#8230;to get her through her busy day.&#8221; Of course, there is no comparison between the relatively placid suburban existence of the 1960s and the nightmare of Baghdad at war today.  According to Riverbend, Valium is in the emergency first-aid kit of most Baghdad families to help them them make it through their day, and through the night.  <\/p>\n<p>Drug addiction is growing in Iraq, but as Riverbend remarks, Iraqis have other concerns which are more pressing; like protecting their children from kidnappers and bombs in this continuing disastrous war and occupation.  As she puts it so well, it&#8217;s &#8220;like discovering you have cancer while you&#8217;re fighting off a hungry alligator- you&#8217;ll worry about the disease later.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/riverbendblog.blogspot.com\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rolling Stones 1966 hit, &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Little Helper,&#8221; was a warning about addiction to Valium, a tranquilizer used by a legion of western women &#8220;&#8230;to get her through her busy day.&#8221; Of course, there is no comparison between the relatively placid suburban existence of the 1960s and the nightmare of Baghdad at war today. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-1361","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\/1361","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}