{"id":5360,"date":"2009-03-06T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T18:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2009-03-06T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T18:56:54","slug":"reading-scott-horton-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/reading-scott-horton-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Scott Horton in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Horton (of Antiwar Radio) got an unusual readership for his article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/horton\/?articleid=14340\">Finding Ways to Stay in Iraq<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Al Nour<\/em> newspaper in Iraq translated and ran the article in full.  This was a shock to the editors of <em>The Baghdad Mosquito<\/em>, which is published by the Multi-National Forces (occupation) in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/horton\/05MAR2009_BM.pdf\">March 5 issue<\/a> headlines Scott&#8217;s article on the front page: &#8220;Scott Horton: New US President Plays With Slogans And Iraq Is Being Fooled.&#8221;  The entire article is reprinted in <em>The Mosquito<\/em>, with the following introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Summary: A US Political analyst believes that the policies of the Bush administration are being repeated in Iraq; however, the administration is trying to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbeautify\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the policies in an attempt to fool the world. The analyst claims that Obama is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcplaying with slogans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>[Mosquito Note: The rest of the article was taken from another website and translated into Arabic. The author at <em>Al Nour<\/em> removed the names (other than Scott Horton) from the original article. The rest of the content remained the same. The following is the text of the article written by Mr. Scott Horton that was published on Antiwar.com. It is unusual for <em>Al Nour<\/em> to publish this type of article. The article is written from a very left-wing liberal point of view. <em>Al Nour <\/em>is usually a non-biased newspaper that publishes news stories rather than extremely biased editorials.] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Horton (of Antiwar Radio) got an unusual readership for his article, &#8220;Finding Ways to Stay in Iraq.&#8221; Al Nour newspaper in Iraq translated and ran the article in full. This was a shock to the editors of The Baghdad Mosquito, which is published by the Multi-National Forces (occupation) in Iraq. The March 5 issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/5360","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=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}