{"id":210,"date":"2003-11-25T03:21:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T08:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/ass_crackdown\/"},"modified":"2003-11-25T03:21:05","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T08:21:05","slug":"ass_crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/ass_crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ass Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/archives\/000187.html\">It didn&#8217;t take a genius<\/a> to see <a  href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=573&#038;ncid=573&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20031124\/od_nm\/donkeys_dc\">this coming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Life Worsens for Donkeys Under Suspicion&#8221;<br \/>\nSince guerrillas used donkeys to outwit the high-tech defenses of the U.S. military in Iraq, the life of the beast of burden has never been so miserable.<br \/>\nAttackers used donkey carts to launch Katyusha rockets at the Oil Ministry and two fortified Baghdad hotels Friday. Two other donkey carts were stopped &#8212; one carrying more rockets, the other a donkey-bomb wired up with explosives.<br \/>\nEvery donkey in Baghdad is suddenly under suspicion as President Bush wages a global war on terror.<br \/>\nIn a crackdown on an animal that already suffers multiple daily whippings, U.S. soldiers with automatic rifles regularly stop and search donkey carts for weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just the donkeys:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donkeys are not alone. Horses also face new checks.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Americans always check our horse carriages. Every time we ride around they stop us and check our wooden boxes for weapons,&#8221; said Ali Hassan, in the muddy streets of the Sadr City slum, as horse owners bought kerosene among piles of rotten garbage swarming with flies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Time to liberate the Iraqi beasts of burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/ass_crackdown\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Ass Crackdown\"><p>It didn&#8217;t take a genius to see this coming: &#8220;Life Worsens for Donkeys Under Suspicion&#8221; Since guerrillas used donkeys to outwit the high-tech defenses of the U.S. military in Iraq, the life of the beast of burden has never been so miserable. Attackers used donkey carts to launch Katyusha rockets at the Oil Ministry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}