{"id":4686,"date":"2008-09-23T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2008-09-23T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:12:52","slug":"every-iraqi-was-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/every-iraqi-was-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Iraqi Was Murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the excellent article by Ann Wright, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/article\/when-refusing-kill-has-a-higher-sentence-than-murder\">When Refusing to Kill Has a Higher Sentence Than Murder<\/a>,&#8221; mention was made of the light sentences that were given out to U.S. soldiers for murdering Iraqi civilians. Many who support the war are also\u00c2\u00a0outraged about this.\u00c2\u00a0Yet, we should never forget that since the invasion and occupation of Iraq was itself aggressive,\u00c2\u00a0unnecessary, and immoral&#8211;every Iraqi killed by U.S. troops could be said to be\u00c2\u00a0murdered. There is\u00c2\u00a0no such thing as state-sanctified murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the excellent article by Ann Wright, &#8220;When Refusing to Kill Has a Higher Sentence Than Murder,&#8221; mention was made of the light sentences that were given out to U.S. soldiers for murdering Iraqi civilians. Many who support the war are also\u00c2\u00a0outraged about this.\u00c2\u00a0Yet, we should never forget that since the invasion and occupation of [&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],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"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\/4686","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=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}