{"id":2197,"date":"2007-05-18T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/blaming_america\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:44:50","slug":"blaming_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/blaming_america\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Americans For 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last Republican presidential debate Texas Rep. Ron Paul argued<\/a> that terrorists who attack America are motivated, in part, by America’s Middle East policies:<\/p>\n

“They attack us because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. … We’ve been in the Middle East,” Paul said in explaining his opposition to going to war in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul’s comments have drawn scorn from the right-wing noise machine and some GOP leaders are trying to ban<\/a> him from future debates.
\nMeanwhile, in her tribute to Jerry Falwell, Ann Coulter writes this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Let me be the first to say: I ALWAYS agreed with the Rev. Falwell.
\nActually, there was one small item I think Falwell got wrong regarding his statement after 9\/11 that “the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians — who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle — the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.'”
\nFirst of all, I disagreed with that statement because Falwell neglected to specifically include Teddy Kennedy and “the Reverend” Barry Lynn.
\nSecond, Falwell later stressed that he blamed the terrorists most of all, but I think that clarification was unnecessary. The necessary clarification was to note that God was at least protecting America enough not to allow the terrorists to strike when a Democrat was in the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When will the right wing outrage machine go after Ann Coulter because she blames Americans for 9\/11? I’m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last Republican presidential debate Texas Rep. Ron Paul argued that terrorists who attack America are motivated, in part, by America’s Middle East policies: “They attack us because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. … We’ve been in the Middle East,” Paul said in explaining his opposition to going […]<\/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-2197","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\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}