{"id":7105,"date":"2009-04-28T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2009-04-29T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:12:50","slug":"bush-then-war-crimes-will-be-prosecutedno-defense-to-say-i-was-just-following-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7105","title":{"rendered":"Bush Then: &#8216;War Crimes Will be Prosecuted&#8230;No Defense to Say, &#8216;I was Just Following Orders&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/28\/bush-torture-flashback\/\">George W. Bush just before the invastion of Iraq<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, &#8220;I was just following orders.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oyzty-UN3Yg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oyzty-UN3Yg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s also not forget what <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7098\">Saint Ronnie similarly said<\/a> on these matters. Seems to me the Republicans <i>themselves<\/i> have made a very compelling case for prosecuting war criminals, such as George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/em> Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson on Bush&#8217;s pre-war statement: &#8220;I think the message there is &#8216;just kidding, folks.'&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/08\/blog\/2009\/04\/29\/president-bush-called-for-torture-investigations\/\">Details, video&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Bush just before the invastion of Iraq: War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, &#8220;I was just following orders.&#8221;\u009d And let&#8217;s also not forget what Saint Ronnie similarly said on these matters. Seems to me the Republicans themselves have made a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,24,126,366],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-iraq-war","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-torture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}