{"id":4545,"date":"2008-08-12T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2008-08-12T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:21:07","slug":"the-arrogant-hypocrisy-of-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/the-arrogant-hypocrisy-of-the-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arrogant Hypocrisy of the U.S. Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any government more hypocritical than the U.S. government? Has there ever been? The United States is considering punishing Russia for its military actions in Georgia by\u00c2\u00a0cancelling U.S. participation in an annual Russia-NATO naval exercise. Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,1832190,00.html\">here<\/a>. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice\u00c2\u00a0insists that &#8220;the Russians need to stop their military operations as they have apparently said that they will, but those military operations really do now need to stop because calm needs to be restored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, how about the United States stopping its military operations in Iraq so calm can be restored? The very idea that the U.S. government would seek to lecture Russia about its military actions in Georgia is ludicrous. Has Uncle Sam no shame about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/rockwell\/none-dare-call-genocide.html\">genocide<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0its military has unleashed in Iraq?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any government more hypocritical than the U.S. government? Has there ever been? The United States is considering punishing Russia for its military actions in Georgia by\u00c2\u00a0cancelling U.S. participation in an annual Russia-NATO naval exercise. Read the full story here. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice\u00c2\u00a0insists that &#8220;the Russians need to stop their military operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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":[32,26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-russia"],"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\/4545","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}