{"id":708,"date":"2004-04-08T02:12:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-08T02:12:59","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T09:12:59","slug":"mass-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/08\/mass-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    &#8220;In Iraq &#8230; we are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>George W. Bush<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/09\/20030907-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Address to the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 7, 2003<\/p>\n<p>    Marine engineers patrolling near Ramadi on Wednesday reported coming across a mass grave containing up to 350 bodies of Iraqis who appeared to have been killed in the fighting. It wasn&#8217;t clear whether the bodies belonged to combatants, civilians or both.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>Knight Ridder Newspapers<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcities.com\/mld\/krwashington\/8378962.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Intense fighting continues across Iraq<\/a><br \/>\nApril 7, 2004<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001346.html#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen from Billmon, proprietor of the Whiskey Bar<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Iraq &#8230; we are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions.&#8221; George W. Bush Address to the Nation September 7, 2003 Marine engineers patrolling near Ramadi on Wednesday reported coming across a mass grave containing up to 350 bodies of Iraqis who appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/708","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}