{"id":39,"date":"2004-05-12T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2004-05-12T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T19:33:27","slug":"abu_ghraib_watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/12\/abu_ghraib_watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Ghraib Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I may have found a new hero in the unlikeliest of places (or, more accurately, the unlikeliest party). Yesterday, during the Congressional hearings on this this Iraqi prison mess, Republican sentator Lindsey Graham, a former Air Force JAG, rose above the partisan horseshit and spoke volumes with but a single sentence. He said what I have been thinking ever since this scandal first broke: &#8220;When you are the good guys, you&#8217;ve got to act like the good guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re masochistic enough to want to see the complete transcript of those hearings, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0405\/11\/se.01.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/\">Josh Marshall<\/a>&#8216;s comment on Graham&#8217;s statement was, &#8220;Another way to put this might be to say that being the good guys is about what you do, not who you are. That&#8217;s a truth that the architects of this war, in subtler but I suspect more damaging ways, frequently failed to understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I may have found a new hero in the unlikeliest of places (or, more accurately, the unlikeliest party). Yesterday, during the Congressional hearings on this this Iraqi prison mess, Republican sentator Lindsey Graham, a former Air Force JAG, rose above the partisan horseshit and spoke volumes with but a single sentence. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}