{"id":8139,"date":"2010-04-15T17:18:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8139"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:18:39","slug":"arrest-christopher-hitchens-for-supporting-an-illegal-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/arrest-christopher-hitchens-for-supporting-an-illegal-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Christopher Hitchens for supporting an illegal war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it happens, I supported \u2013 and still support \u2013 the Iraq war, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/hitchens_and_the_church\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is considerably more sensible than Hitchens\u2019 crusade to arrest the Pope:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It should also be remembered that Hitchens was an outspoken advocate of the 2003 Iraq War which some international lawyers deemed illegal. A case could arguably be made, therefore, to have himself brought to the ICC for war crimes on the grounds of being a leading cheerleader for an illegal war. After all, he now seems to be a keen proselytizer for international law, at least when it suits his ideological goals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it happens, I supported \u2013 and still support \u2013 the Iraq war, but this is considerably more sensible than Hitchens\u2019 crusade to arrest the Pope: It should also be remembered that Hitchens was an outspoken advocate of the 2003 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/arrest-christopher-hitchens-for-supporting-an-illegal-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,275],"tags":[442,2085],"class_list":["post-8139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-roman-catholic-child-abuse","tag-atheist-dementia","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}