{"id":1943,"date":"2004-05-12T02:10:58","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/bill-hobbs-on-abu-ghraib\/"},"modified":"2004-05-12T02:10:58","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T09:10:58","slug":"bill-hobbs-on-abu-ghraib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/12\/bill-hobbs-on-abu-ghraib\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Hobbs on Abu Ghraib"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHobbs nails the fake outrage:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let’s be honest. The Left, which didn’t care that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were being tortured and murdered by Saddam Hussein, is only professing outrage about the events at the Abu Ghraib Prison because it’s a chance to undermine the Bush administration and the War on Terror.<\/p>\n

The American soldiers who abused the Iraqis deserve punishment – their actions can not be tolerated. But to hear the Left’s “outrage” over the abuse of a few Iraqi prisoners of war is just sickening. They’d have been happy to leave 24 million Iraqis under the boot heel of a murderous thug who ran a regime of rape rooms and mass murder, of feeding dissidents into shredding machines, of draining the wetlands to kill of a tribe that lived there, of gassing civilians, of starving the citizenry while diverting billions in oil revenue to his own ends and to the bribing of foreign officials, and of burying dead women and children in mass graves.<\/p>\n

It took around 200,000 brave and heroic American soldiers to end that awful regime and wake Iraq from its 30-year nightmare. A tiny fraction of the 200,000 have done some awful things, and they rightly will be punished for it. But they and their actions are an aberration. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t ever forget that America liberated 24 million Iraqis. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly. And for a fine example of how to pretend to be a deeply caring person while not actually having a clue, go read Jon Garfunkel<\/a>, who calls the incidents of hazing\/torture “atrocities”.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobbs nails the fake outrage: Let’s be honest. The Left, which didn’t care that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were being tortured and murdered by Saddam Hussein, is only professing outrage about the events at the Abu Ghraib Prison because it’s a chance to undermine the Bush administration and the War on Terror. The American … Continue reading “Bill Hobbs on Abu Ghraib”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-vl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}