{"id":1836,"date":"2009-06-01T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:19:18","slug":"general-rick-sanchez-calls-for-war-crimes-truth-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/06\/01\/general-rick-sanchez-calls-for-war-crimes-truth-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"General Rick Sanchez calls for War Crimes Truth Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Story on Huffington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jack-hidary\/general-rick-sanchez-call_b_209573.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story on Huffington Post. Here are the lead paragraphs from the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In front of a packed audience tonight at the Times Center in New York City, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, called for a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture which occurred there.<\/p>\n<p>The General described the failures at all levels of civilian and military command that led to the abuses in Iraq, &#8220;and that is why I support the formation of a truth commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The General went on to say that, &#8220;during my time in Iraq there was not one instance of actionable intelligence that came out of these interrogation techniques.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another authoritative voice giving the lie to all that Bush\/Cheney are saying about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story on Huffington Post. Here are the lead paragraphs from the story: In front of a packed audience tonight at the Times Center in New York City, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, called for a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}