{"id":88,"date":"2006-07-11T08:38:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-07-11T08:38:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T15:38:57","slug":"had-enough-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Had Enough Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear God . . . from Lawrence Kaplan at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/theplank?pid=24150\">The National Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even by the degraded standards of everyday life in Baghdad, this report from CNN&#8217;s Nic Robertson comes as a shock:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One international official told me of reports among his staff that a 15-year-old girl had been beheaded and a dog&#8217;s head sewn on her body in its place; and of a young child who had had his hands drilled and bolted together before being killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My inbox will soon be stuffed with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chickenhawk_%28politics%29\">chickenhawk<\/a> e-mail. Their talking points will boil down to this: &#8220;Well, if Iraqis can sew a dog&#8217;s head on a decapitated 15-year-old girl, why can&#8217;t our troops do a little rapin&#8217; &#038; pillagin&#8217;? It just ain&#8217;t fair!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I repeat my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=80\">earlier comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you had enough?<\/p>\n<p>We dug the pit. Then we turned the snakes loose. And now we&#8217;re in there with &#8217;em. Can we still climb out, or did we dig too deep?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear God . . . from Lawrence Kaplan at The National Review: Even by the degraded standards of everyday life in Baghdad, this report from CNN&#8217;s Nic Robertson comes as a shock: One international official told me of reports among his staff that a 15-year-old girl had been beheaded and a dog&#8217;s head sewn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}