{"id":1861,"date":"2005-02-25T07:02:48","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-03T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:09:00","slug":"the-hits-keep-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/25\/the-hits-keep-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hits Keep Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How sincere is Walid Jumblatt&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/tks\/056847.html>much<\/a>&#8211;<a href=http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/02\/something_is_ch.shtml#008537>hyped<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/reason.com\/links\/links022405.shtml>conversion<\/a> to the Bush Doctrine? Well, according to a FrontPageMag article just two months back, <a href=http:\/\/www.frontpagemagazine.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16367>Jumblatt told a Saudi daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.<\/ul>\n<p>Is it conceivable that these days, old Walid is just using a <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A45575-2005Feb22.html>credulous media<\/a> to manipulate America into doing his dirty work? That he doesn&#8217;t mind the prospect of more U.S. soldiers dying \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this time in Syria \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so that he can spew his <a href=http:\/\/memri.org\/bin\/articles.cgi?Page=archives&#038;Area=sd&#038;ID=SP64904>syphilitic garbage<\/a> in an independent Lebanon?<\/p>\n<p>Nah. Can&#8217;t be. All is well, warbots. Reality is whatever you need it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How sincere is Walid Jumblatt&#8217;s much&#8211;hyped conversion to the Bush Doctrine? Well, according to a FrontPageMag article just two months back, Jumblatt told a Saudi daily: We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory. Is it [&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-1861","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\/1861","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=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}