{"id":1421,"date":"2004-05-16T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/05\/16\/iraq_abuse_moore_accusations"},"modified":"2004-05-16T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2004-05-16T20:05:12","slug":"iraq_abuse_moore_accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/05\/16\/iraq_abuse_moore_accusations","title":{"rendered":"Iraq abuse;  Moore accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/15\/iraq.abuse.main\/index.html\">CNN reports<\/a> that a former intelligence official has alleged that the recent abuse scandal in Abu Ghuraib prison was in fact the result of Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s policy &#8211; not of the antics of a few misguided soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelmoore.com\/\">Michael Moore<\/a> has alleged in his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival that people from the White House and Republican Party had <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/3719261.stm\">tried to stop his latest film<\/a> being made or released.  (I don&#8217;t much care for Michael Moore except for the fact that he is against Bush.  As I believe I have said here before, his accusations could lead to a US attempt on Saudi Arabia if taken seriously &#8211; something no Muslim welcomes.  But this accusation does not surprise me given the Bush government&#8217;s well-known corporate links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that a former intelligence official has alleged that the recent abuse scandal in Abu Ghuraib prison was in fact the result of Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s policy &#8211; not of the antics of a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-mV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}