{"id":4358,"date":"2008-08-12T19:53:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2008-08-12T19:53:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:53:27","slug":"hypocrite-bush-%e2%80%9cunacceptable-in-the-21st-century%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/hypocrite-bush-%e2%80%9cunacceptable-in-the-21st-century%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypocrite Bush: \u201cUnacceptable in the 21st Century\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/mag\/wx081208.html\">Matthew Rothschild<\/a> | Just back from mugging for the cameras with the bikini-clad U.S. Olympic volleyball team, Bush put his serious face on in Washington and denounced Russia\u2019s incursion into Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Bush called it \u201cunacceptable in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right, but who is he to talk?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see.<\/p>\n<p>If invading a sovereign country that posed no threat to you is \u201cunacceptable in the 21st century,\u201d then Bush himself has acted in an unacceptable way, obviously, for invading Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>And what about kidnapping people?<\/p>\n<p>Or holding people in solitary confinement for years at a time, prior to any trial?<\/p>\n<p>Or imprisoning people for six years without ever letting them see a judge?<\/p>\n<p>What about parading them around naked?<\/p>\n<p>Or about putting hoods over their heads?<\/p>\n<p>Or making them hang by their arms?<\/p>\n<p>Or depriving them of sleep for days at a time?<\/p>\n<p>Or holding them in freezing or roasting temperatures?<\/p>\n<p>Or blasting music at them at ear-splitting volume?<\/p>\n<p>Or putting them in cramped little boxes?<\/p>\n<p>Or sexually humiliating them?<\/p>\n<p>Or intimidating them with dogs?<\/p>\n<p>Or waterboarding them?<\/p>\n<p>These are all actions that ought to be \u201cunacceptable in the 21st century,\u201d but Bush himself is responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s no one to throw stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matthew Rothschild | Just back from mugging for the cameras with the bikini-clad U.S. Olympic volleyball team, Bush put his serious face on in Washington and denounced Russia\u2019s incursion into Georgia. Bush called it \u201cunacceptable in the 21st century.\u201d He\u2019s right, but who is he to talk? Let\u2019s see. If invading a sovereign country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1616],"tags":[27,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-4358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-bush","9":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}