{"id":3240,"date":"2007-02-04T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/why-they-hate-us-some-examples\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T23:49:31","slug":"why-they-hate-us-some-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/why-they-hate-us-some-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"Why They Hate Us: Some Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube gives some examples of why Iraqis may have a less than positive view of US occupiers.  I am not only amazed at what some of these videos show, but also the fact that the soldiers who shot the videos were apparently proud of their behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving in Baghdad<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yco1deXOzN8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nI first saw this one on MSNBC.  Col. Jack Jacobs explained that this is the way US forces in Iraq are now trained to drive in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US Soldiers Taunt Kids With Water<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KrfS7MVkTZY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nUS soldiers conduct &#8220;kid races&#8221; where they use precious clean drinking water in the same way they use the fake rabbit at the greyhound races.<\/p>\n<p><strong>US Soldiers Punish Looters of Firewood<\/strong><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/efv9-vQ2jpA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nSpeaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>It would be hard to argue that any of the victims in these videos were deserving of this behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube gives some examples of why Iraqis may have a less than positive view of US occupiers. I am not only amazed at what some of these videos show, but also the fact that the soldiers who shot the videos were apparently proud of their behavior. Driving in Baghdad I first saw this one on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-3240","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\/3240","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}