{"id":859,"date":"2004-05-03T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-03T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T22:46:31","slug":"vd-hanson-on-abu-ghraib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/03\/vd-hanson-on-abu-ghraib\/","title":{"rendered":"VD Hanson on Abu Ghraib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benadorassociates.com\/article\/3955\" target=\"_blank\">Victor David &#8220;VD&#8221; Hanson <\/a>four paragraphs of mild angst over the Abu Ghraib atrocities to segue into his apologia.  The rationalizations for American torture of Iraqi prisoners are in five bulleted points.  I&#8217;ll sum them up so you don&#8217;t have to read it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s an investigation going on! Nothing&#8217;s proven.<\/li>\n<li>Bush and Kimmitt are mad about it and boy, are those very few soldiers who did it in trouble.<\/li>\n<li>Worse things happened in history!<\/li>\n<li>The media is blowing this out of proportion, especially the Arab Press, those Osama-lovers!<\/li>\n<li>Those guys naked in human pyramids with bags on their heads were probably terrorists who deserved it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conclusion:  People are just picking on America for this because they&#8217;re mean hypocrites and don&#8217;t understand America&#8217;s moral superiority!  Don&#8217;t forget the rest of the world, especially Arabs, are much worse than us, so go nag on them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes Victor David &#8220;VD&#8221; Hanson four paragraphs of mild angst over the Abu Ghraib atrocities to segue into his apologia. The rationalizations for American torture of Iraqi prisoners are in five bulleted points. I&#8217;ll sum them up so you don&#8217;t have to read it. There&#8217;s an investigation going on! Nothing&#8217;s proven. Bush and Kimmitt [&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-859","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\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}