{"id":2492,"date":"2005-11-02T23:42:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T06:42:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-02T23:42:57","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T06:42:57","slug":"born-in-the-ussa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/02\/born-in-the-ussa\/","title":{"rendered":"Born in the USSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does it bother anyone that the US government is using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/9890829\/\"><b><i>former Soviet gulags<\/i><\/b><\/a> in Eastern Europe to <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1237589,00.html\">torture<\/a> the people they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines04\/1228-07.htm\">kidnap<\/a>? That our leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/25\/AR2005102501388.html\">Dick Cheney<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/24\/AR2005102402051.html\">actively pressuring<\/a> the senate to exempt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P2438_0_1_45\">the CIA<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/06\/senate.detainees\/\">new torture ban<\/a> as his stooge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2005\/10\/06\/news\/detain.php\">threatens to veto<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Eh, me neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it bother anyone that the US government is using former Soviet gulags in Eastern Europe to torture the people they kidnap? That our leader, Dick Cheney, is actively pressuring the senate to exempt the CIA from the new torture ban as his stooge threatens to veto? Eh, me neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-2492","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\/2492","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}