{"id":217,"date":"2004-04-08T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=217"},"modified":"2004-04-08T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T17:33:00","slug":"why-we-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/iraq\/pdf\/iraq_mass_graves.pdf\">preliminary report<\/a> about mass graves in Iraq is out (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\">USS Clueless<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. \u201cHuman Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been \u2018disappeared\u2019 by the Iraqi government over the past two decades,\u201d said the group in a statement in May. \u201cMany of these \u2018disappeared\u2019 are those whose remains are now being unearthed in mass graves all over Iraq.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If these numbers prove accurate, they represent a crime against humanity surpassed only by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Pol Pot\u2019s Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s, and the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you opposed the Iraq war, this is what you supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary report about mass graves in Iraq is out (Hat tip: USS Clueless): The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. \u201cHuman Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been \u2018disappeared\u2019 by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why We Fight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}