{"id":4269,"date":"2008-04-07T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T21:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2008-04-07T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T22:04:16","slug":"4269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/4269\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Silent on Iraq Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York, you cannot ride a subway without being bombarded with posters about Darfur and now, Tibet. Of course I have sympathy for those killed and displaced in Darfur, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php?\/site\/article\/3723\/\">the numbers have been overblown<\/a> and other specifics of the situation have been exaggerated. And I am a sucker for all plainly legitimate secessionist movements, as in Tibet. But I am quite sick of being guilted into protest and &#8220;action&#8221; with the purpose of fixing problems my government is in no way (currently) responsible for.<\/p>\n<p>The Tibet march poster I saw yesterday mentioned the &#8220;atrocities&#8221; perpetrated by the Chinese government. How about the atrocities carried out, abetted, enabled, and inspired by the US Government in Iraq? The death toll in Iraq beats last month&#8217;s entire cluster of clashes in Tibet practically <em>every hour<\/em>. Why, outside of a few stickers on newspaper boxes around town, is no significant mention made of what&#8217;s going on non-stop in Iraq? Are mainstream liberals just so cowed by the see-through rhetoric of the now completely debunked War Party that they still refuse to criticize a war their military is currently prosecuting?<\/p>\n<p>Why are they demurely and cowardly &#8220;supporting the troops&#8221; in Iraq while wasting their rage on bullsh*t like a police crackdown against rioters in Tibet? This goes all the way up to top liberals in the country &#8212; the disgusting <a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=109246\">Nancy Pelosi tells the Presiden<\/a>t he should boycott the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing. Who is George Bush to express moral indignation about <em>anything<\/em>? France&#8217;s Sarkozy is just as ridiculous &#8212; he rubs his face in Bush&#8217;s crack as the Decider bends over to destroy another piece of Iraq, but is <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j7mPgc1jppZM9UUW2HxfMxwsfGew\">contemplating a boycott of the Olympics opening ceremonies<\/a> over a few scuffles in Lhasa?<\/p>\n<p>Sick. <\/p>\n<p>How about some priorities reevaluation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York, you cannot ride a subway without being bombarded with posters about Darfur and now, Tibet. Of course I have sympathy for those killed and displaced in Darfur, though the numbers have been overblown and other specifics of the situation have been exaggerated. And I am a sucker for all plainly legitimate secessionist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5,32,37,107],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-movement","category-iraq","category-sudandarfur","category-tibet"],"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\/4269","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=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}