{"id":9357,"date":"2011-02-25T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2011-02-25T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:29:14","slug":"iraq-libya-and-lessons-not-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/iraq-libya-and-lessons-not-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq, Libya, and Lessons Not Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110225\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iraq\">This<\/a> is how peaceful demonstators are treated in &#8220;liberated&#8221; Iraq:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221;\u00a0Iraqi officials say at least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in a day of violent clashes across the country between security forces and demonstrators. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;At least nine demonstrators were killed in separate clashes in three northern Iraqi cities during what was described as a &#8216;Day of Rage.&#8217; In the western Anbar province at least two people were killed as security forces and demonstrators battled.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let those who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/feb\/23\/libya-iraq-2003-invasion-gaddafi\">screeching\u00a0<\/a> about the alleged &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lynch.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2011\/02\/21\/the_libyan_horror\">emergency&#8221;<\/a> that somehow requires us to intervene in Libya, to &#8220;prevent a massacre,&#8221; take a good look at what intervention has wrought in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>For more, check out<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2011\/02\/24\/re-liberating-iraq\/\"> my column <\/a>on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how peaceful demonstators are treated in &#8220;liberated&#8221; Iraq: &#8221;\u00a0Iraqi officials say at least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in a day of violent clashes across the country between security forces and demonstrators. &#8220;At least nine demonstrators were killed in separate clashes in three northern Iraqi cities during what was described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-9357","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\/9357","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9359,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions\/9359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}