{"id":2124,"date":"2005-05-19T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T23:44:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-19T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T23:44:43","slug":"making-excuses-for-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/making-excuses-for-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Excuses for Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So sue me: people who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/printFriendly\/0,,1-3-1611925-3,00.html\">riot and kill<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=8527961\">swear jihad<\/a> against an entire country because some drooling gap-toothed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynndie_England\">Lynndie<\/a>-type flushed a wad of paper that had religious stuff written on it down a toilet are A-N-I-M-A-L-S. I don&#8217;t care if it was their holy book. I don&#8217;t care that it hurt their feelings and allegedly offended God. I don&#8217;t even care that it was done as part of a torture session &#8212; people are being <i>tortured<\/i> and all anyone can think to focus on is a <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7693014\/site\/newsweek\/\">handful of words<\/a> about <i>flushing a Koran<\/i>!?!?<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and friend Margaret Griffis says, &#8220;The <i>Newsweek<\/i> story did nothing to alleviate anything while at the same time providing psychos with a fresh reason to kill us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The blame for the riots and deaths is on the nutballs who participated. Someone needs to send a few truckloads of rabies shots to Afghanistan along with the &#8220;reconstruction&#8221;aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sue me: people who riot and kill and swear jihad against an entire country because some drooling gap-toothed Lynndie-type flushed a wad of paper that had religious stuff written on it down a toilet are A-N-I-M-A-L-S. I don&#8217;t care if it was their holy book. I don&#8217;t care that it hurt their feelings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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-2124","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\/2124","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}