{"id":196336,"date":"2008-05-05T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/borzou-daragahi-and-raheem-salman-are-fing-morons\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:33:00","slug":"borzou-daragahi-and-raheem-salman-are-fing-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/borzou-daragahi-and-raheem-salman-are-fing-morons\/","title":{"rendered":"Borzou Daragahi and Raheem Salman are F&#038;^%ing Morons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so are the US diplomats that they interviewed, because they find it somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-blackwater4-2008may04,0,6887134.story?track=rss\">culturally alien that an envelope of cash won&#8217;t make everything better with regards to the Blackwater massacre in Baghdad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/attackerman\/2008\/05\/05\/blackwaterisheretohelp\/\">Spencer Ackerman so eloquently states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>If an unaccountable band of politically-connected soldiers-of-fortune shot my mother as she was trying to flee from a traffic circle, and the State Department offered me $5,000 in order to make the incident go away, I would not only be angry, I would be exploring my options for <em>revenge<\/em>. You don\u2019t have to be an Iraqi to understand this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this happened in America, you would have family members demanding the death penalty<\/p>\n<p>$5000 and a meaningless apology does not mean anything <strong>them<\/strong>, and it does not mean anything to <strong>us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We are treating them like easily bought off sub humans, and they have legitimate cause to take exception.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that some of the soldiers in Iraq will die for what the mercenaries did in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so are the US diplomats that they interviewed, because they find it somehow culturally alien that an envelope of cash won&#8217;t make everything better with regards to the Blackwater massacre in Baghdad. As Spencer Ackerman so eloquently states: If an unaccountable band of politically-connected soldiers-of-fortune shot my mother as she was trying to flee &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1063,972,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-iraq","category-justice","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}