{"id":6460,"date":"2009-11-18T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2009-11-18T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:27:52","slug":"dying-for-crooks-us-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/dying-for-crooks-us-troops-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying for Crooks: US Troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International reported yesterday that Afghanistan is the most corrupt nation in the world &#8211; except for Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Heckua achievement, if the only nation on earth that is more shady is one that is full of pirates\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Karzai is making Marion Barry look like Mother Teresa.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported today that one of Afghanistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top ministers took a $30 million bribe to give a special deal to a Chinese mining company.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everything seems to be for sale: public offices, access to government services, even a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freedom.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>So what do Army recruiters say these days? Why in Hades would any American agree to risk his neck to prop up this band of<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/dying-for-crooks-us-troops-in-afghanistan\/\"> thieves<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International reported yesterday that Afghanistan is the most corrupt nation in the world &#8211; except for Somalia. Heckua achievement, if the only nation on earth that is more shady is one that is full of pirates\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Karzai is making Marion Barry look like Mother Teresa. The Washington Post reported today that one of Afghanistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&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-6460","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\/6460","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=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}