{"id":3190,"date":"2006-11-07T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2006-11-07T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T09:09:00","slug":"damned-and-damnable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Damned and damnable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/ante-bellum-thoughts-on-iraq.html\">I argued<\/a> before the invasion, that &#8220;if the Republicans have become arrogant with power, and are not trusting in God for the ultimate outcome, then I think they are leading the world to ruin. If the decision to attack is motivated by a concern for the weak and defenceless (the Biblical &#8216;widows and orphans&#8217;) then it is justified; if it is taken from a lust and glorying in power and temporal might &#8211; then it is damned and damnable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/waroniraq\/43779\/\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope that Bush gets stuffed today. In particular, I hope that the Republicans lose both houses, so that some proper investigations can be carried out into the last six years of tragic incompetence.<\/p>\n<p><span>(I say that as someone who would qualify as a Republican on most things.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I argued before the invasion, that &#8220;if the Republicans have become arrogant with power, and are not trusting in God for the ultimate outcome, then I think they are leading the world to ruin. If the decision to attack is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Ps","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}