{"id":8455,"date":"2010-11-02T04:14:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2010-11-02T04:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:14:32","slug":"is-this-why-they-hate-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/is-this-why-they-hate-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Is THIS why they hate us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>AMY GOODMAN: <\/b>A former US Marine who killed two unarmed Iraqis is running for a congressional seat in North Carolina&#8230; Ilario Pantano has said he has no regrets about fatally shooting the two at point-blank range after detaining them near Fallujah in April 2004. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>JUSTIN ELLIOT:<\/b> These two Iraqi men had been searched. They didn&#8217;t have any weapons. And he was &#8212; Mr. Pantano was having them search their own car when he opened fire, and shooting as many as fifty or sixty rounds at them. And that includes reloading his M-16 rifle. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>AMY GOODMAN:<\/b> Despite his admission, the military cleared Pantano of wrongdoing in 2005. He is now in a tight race with incumbent Democrat Rep. Mike McIntyre in North Carolina&#8217;s 7th Congressional District. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2010\/10\/29\/from_murder_to_congress_unrepentant_tea\"> &#8211;From Murder to Congress? <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think <i>this<\/i> sort of thing might be why they hate us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMY GOODMAN: A former US Marine who killed two unarmed Iraqis is running for a congressional seat in North Carolina&#8230; Ilario Pantano has said he has no regrets about fatally shooting the two at point-blank range after detaining them near Fallujah in April 2004. JUSTIN ELLIOT: These two Iraqi men had been searched. They didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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":[22,7,95,32,29,3,30,80,9],"tags":[218,687,274],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-empire","category-intervention","category-iraq","category-islam","category-news","category-politics","category-us-military","category-war-crimes","tag-democracy-now","tag-iraq","tag-why-they-hate-us"],"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\/8455","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}