{"id":5977,"date":"2009-08-02T14:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2009-08-02T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:54:09","slug":"when-will-they-apologize-to-the-speicher-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/02\/when-will-they-apologize-to-the-speicher-family\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will They Apologize to the Speicher Family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/02\/another-iraq-war-propaganda-nugget-bites-the-dust\/\">Capt. Scott Speicher<\/a> by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=MDZmNjg3Njg4NDMyMTEyNTQ5ODExZGE1MDQ2NjU5YTI=\">this<\/a> from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been kept as a personal torture toy for Saddam&#8217;s older son. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How must Speicher&#8217;s widow and two children have felt when hearing such  rumors, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Scott_Speicher#Status_and_investigations\">which were cynically manufactured by the likes of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Babbin to sell their war<\/a>?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began: He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been kept as a personal torture toy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,180,66,80],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-propaganda","category-saddam-hussein","category-torture","category-us-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}