{"id":224697,"date":"2021-07-02T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=208251"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:10:49","slug":"rehabilitating-rumsfeld-erasing-empire-on-all-those-u-s-war-crimes-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/02\/rehabilitating-rumsfeld-erasing-empire-on-all-those-u-s-war-crimes-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bush Administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld\u2019s death was accompanied by many of the apologies for state crimes that we\u2019ve come to expect from the worshippers of U.S. militarism. This includes those emanating from journalistic elites \u2013 The New York Times being the most obvious case in point. The paper\u2019s profile on Rumsfeld\u2019s life  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/rehabilitating-rumsfeld-erasing-empire-on-all-those-u-s-war-crimes-in-iraq\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/rehabilitating-rumsfeld-erasing-empire-on-all-those-u-s-war-crimes-in-iraq\/\">Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes in Iraq<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/07\/02\/rehabilitating-rumsfeld-erasing-empire-on-all-those-u-s-war-crimes-in-iraq\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bush Administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld\u2019s death was accompanied by many of the apologies for state crimes that we\u2019ve come to expect from the worshippers of U.S. militarism. This includes those emanating from journalistic elites &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224802,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224697\/revisions\/224802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}