{"id":2318,"date":"2003-04-03T21:13:50","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T04:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/04\/supporting-the-iraqi-opposition\/"},"modified":"2003-04-03T21:13:50","modified_gmt":"2003-04-04T04:13:50","slug":"supporting-the-iraqi-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/supporting-the-iraqi-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting the Iraqi opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;Michael Ignatieff, a longtime human rights investigator, wrote of &#8220;14,000 &#8216;writers, academics, and other intellectuals &#8212; many of them my friends &#8212; [who] published a petition against the war . . . condemning the Iraqi regime for its human rights violations and supporting &#8216;efforts by the Iraqi opposition to create a democratic, multi-ethnic, and multireligious Iraq.&#8217; &#8221; But they say, he adds, that waging war at this time is &#8220;morally unacceptable.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder,&#8221; Ignatieff wrote &#8212; as I also wonder &#8212; &#8220;what their support for the Iraqi opposition amounts to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"The Village Voice: Nation: Nat Hentoff: Why I Didn't March This Time by Nat Hentoff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0314\/hentoff.php\">Why I Didn&#8217;t March This Time by Nat Hentoff<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Michael Ignatieff, a longtime human rights investigator, wrote of &#8220;14,000 &#8216;writers, academics, and other intellectuals &#8212; many of them my friends &#8212; [who] published a petition against the war . . . condemning the Iraqi regime for its human rights violations and supporting &#8216;efforts by the Iraqi opposition to create a democratic, multi-ethnic, and multireligious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/03\/supporting-the-iraqi-opposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supporting the Iraqi opposition&#8221;<\/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-2318","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-Bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}