{"id":6117,"date":"2009-09-17T04:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2009-09-17T04:53:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:53:46","slug":"civility-2007-style-hanging-george-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/civility-2007-style-hanging-george-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Civility, 2007-Style: Hanging George Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign   &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s good for the goose&#8230;.. gandar&#8221;  &#8211; refers to the recent hanging of Saddam Hussein had been hung after a kangaroo trial. (Saddam was guilty as hell of many things, but the trial process was a disgrace to the United States and to Iraq).  The Bush administration was in such a sweat to use the Saddam trial to influence the US congressional midterm elections that the Iraqi government announced Hussein&#8217;s sentence &#8211; death by hanging &#8211; even before they had officially released the sentence (which was not released until after the US election). <\/p>\n<p>The artist&#8217;s representation of George Bush could have been better, but so could the photograph itself.   Some people may have been offended by the title I added to the photo: &#8220;Bush Swings by Congress.&#8221;   (The full size version of the photograph is available  at my Flickr site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard\/372918627\/sizes\/o\/in\/set-72157594516666762\/\"><strong>here).&lt;\/<\/strong>a&gt;<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard\/372918627\/\" title=\"Bush Swings by Congress by Jim Bovard, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/372918627_8c8312ae23.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Bush Swings by Congress\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher. Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s good for the goose&#8230;.. gandar&#8221; &#8211; refers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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-6117","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\/6117","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6120,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}