{"id":2039,"date":"2005-04-27T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-27T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T22:44:12","slug":"happy-abu-ghraib-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/happy-abu-ghraib-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Happy Abu Ghraib Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[H]ow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=http:\/\/chatna.com\/author\/eisenhower.htm>Gen. Dwight Eisenhower<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/coldfury.com\/reason\/?p=424>Arthur Silber documents the mass scamper over the cliff of civilization<\/a>. A sample (and hardly the worst) from Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s show of April 26:<\/p>\n<ul>CALLER: How you doing Rush?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pretty good, Kevin.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Love to talk to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I just want you to know that we are going to have our Abu Ghraib barbecue party tonight and we are going to be playing nude Twister.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (Laughing.) How many people you got coming?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I figure we only need 8 or 10 to make it a rip roaring time. I thought that would be kind of fitting.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. Nude Twister? Big Abu Ghraib barbecue. (Laughter.) Okay. And that\u2019s from Oregon. Progress here.<\/ul>\n<p>Would George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or hell, Ronald Reagan be proud to call these people their countrymen, much less supporters? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[H]ow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? &#8211; Gen. Dwight Eisenhower Arthur Silber documents the mass scamper over the cliff of civilization. A sample (and hardly the worst) from Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s show of April 26: CALLER: How you doing Rush? RUSH: Pretty good, Kevin. CALLER: [&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-2039","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\/2039","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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}