{"id":5484,"date":"2009-04-05T17:22:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2009-04-06T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:49:03","slug":"colin-powell-war-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/05\/colin-powell-war-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell: War Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow busts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achievement.org\/autodoc\/page\/pow0bio-1\">Colin Powell<\/a>, the <strong>former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Secretary of State of the United States<\/strong>, as he pretends on live TV to not be qualified to know whether someone (him) would be in violation of the laws of war if that person had done <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=4583256\">what he did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Powell also, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpers.org\/archive\/2009\/04\/hbc-90004669\">The Other Scott Horton<\/a> notes, acknowledges the need for an investigation &#8211; of him.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/30002543#30002543\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=4583256\">John Ashcroft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow busts Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Secretary of State of the United States, as he pretends on live TV to not be qualified to know whether someone (him) would be in violation of the laws of war if that person had done what he did. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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":[66,9],"tags":[139,140,704],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torture","category-war-crimes","tag-colin-powell","tag-maddow","tag-torture"],"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\/5484","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}