{"id":1825,"date":"2005-02-16T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T07:58:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-16T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T07:58:57","slug":"recent-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/16\/recent-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/bendermandefense.org\/\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.topia.net\/Images\/kevinmonica.jpg\" BORDER=\"0\" VSPACE=\"8\" HSPACE=\"8\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\"><\/A>In <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/letters\/?articleid=4821\">Backtalk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Monica Benderman announces the establishment of the Kevin Benderman Defense Committee\u2019s Web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/bendermandefense.org\/\">BendermanDefense.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>John Mayew suggests that we write to our elected representatives in support of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/edmonds\/?articleid=4604\">Sibel Edmonds<\/a>, while T. Tunney says that letter-writing is futile.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Johnson: Bush is the American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/robespierre-supreme.html\">Robespierre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don Bacon, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/warisaracket.org.\/\">Smedley Butler Society<\/a>, thinks Bush doesn\u2019t care who runs Iraq \u2013 it\u2019s all about war-profiteering and controlling the oil. &#8220;Scheherazade&#8221; agrees that oil is a motivator but suggests that the U.S. has intentionally empowered Iraq\u2019s Shias as a counterweight to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2089-1481721,00.html\">Saudi Wahhabi<\/a> Sunnis. <\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Shukri defends Islam\u2019s treatment of women.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/letters\/?articleid=4821\">more<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Backtalk: Monica Benderman announces the establishment of the Kevin Benderman Defense Committee\u2019s Web site: BendermanDefense.org. John Mayew suggests that we write to our elected representatives in support of Sibel Edmonds, while T. Tunney says that letter-writing is futile. Kent Johnson: Bush is the American Robespierre. Don Bacon, of the Smedley Butler Society, thinks Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1825","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\/1825","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}