{"id":74,"date":"2009-08-23T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:50:34","slug":"liberated-iraq-abuses-freedom-to-kill-gay-men-with-abandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/liberated-iraq-abuses-freedom-to-kill-gay-men-with-abandon\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberated Iraq Abuses Freedom to Kill Gay Men with Abandon"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\"Graffiti <\/a> Investigating
\nreports of the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq, (BBC News) found
\nthat some gays found Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship preferable to the
\nthreat of violence they face today.<\/q><\/strong><\/p>\n

Were we really
\nconned by our leaders into prosecuting a disastrous war in a far-flung
\nland to enable such murderous bigotry to prevail? Is this what the
\nbrave young men and women of this country fought – and died – for? I
\nthink not. I am incensed! <\/p>\n

OK, so it is a very partisan straw
\nto break the camel’s back of my silence, in this blog, on the
\nprosecution of Western wars in the Middle East, but we are all human,
\nand every one of us who has despaired of the lies of the great and the
\ngood that brought about such wars has done so in some way or other in
\nconnection to a personally held belief or connection, and I am no
\ndifferent. I voted for Blair in 1997, and, like most, lost faith in him
\nwhen he took us to war. He did so, I still like to believe, out of
\nsome religious conviction. Yet the man he followed – Bush – did so out
\nof nothing less than greed. As Hollywood put it, “There’s no such thing
\nas Shia and Shiite, Christian and Muslim, West and East….. there’s
\nonly the haves and the have nots.” [spoken by an oil tycoon Senator in
\nthe Mark Wahlberg movie, ‘Shooter’]. Bush was working for his own clan,
\nthe ‘haves’, regardless of what Blair thought was going on. And quite
\nclearly so was Brown, regardless of what froth from the orgy of profit
\nhe stoked that he has tried to dole out to the needy in overcomplicated
\ncredits. <\/p>\n

I supported the war against the Taliban, [murderous homophobes<\/a> that they are,] for a while, against my better nature, because of their practice of knocking stone walls upon gay men<\/a> – their customary capital punishment for gay Afghans, amongst their many other crimes. <\/p>\n

The Iraq war by contrast has been a fiasco from the start, and for this
\nto be what we have freed the Iraqi people to do – well I am disgusted.
\nBring back Saddam Hussein!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}