{"id":9486,"date":"2011-03-22T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2011-03-22T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:29:10","slug":"obamas-immaculate-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/obamas-immaculate-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Immaculate Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/190785_1805753137111_1038378231_32120510_8317664_n-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/190785_1805753137111_1038378231_32120510_8317664_n-protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"488\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?fbid=1805750857054&amp;id=1038378231&amp;aid=2104553\"><strong>George Robert Newcomb<\/strong><\/a> antiwar rally by the White House on March 19, 2011]<\/p>\n<p>According to some Obama supporters, the U.S. bombing of Libya is a self-evident triumph of good over evil.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Because we&#8217;re the good guys, and Obama said the people the U.S. is killing are bad guys. <\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Gates has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/23\/world\/africa\/23gates.html?hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1300806079-ZbFOklELZVLNpo08VkL1RA\"><strong>become indignant<\/strong> <\/a>at the suggestion that the U.S. bombing is killing a significant number of Libyan civilians.  That is impossible, because Obama is pure-hearted. <\/p>\n<p>It will be entertaining to watch pro-war liberals struggle to justify killing Libyans (civilian and otherwise) in the coming days\/weeks\/months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[photo by George Robert Newcomb antiwar rally by the White House on March 19, 2011] According to some Obama supporters, the U.S. bombing of Libya is a self-evident triumph of good over evil. Why? Because we&#8217;re the good guys, and Obama said the people the U.S. is killing are bad guys. Defense Secretary Gates has [&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-9486","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\/9486","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=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9489,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions\/9489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}