{"id":2481,"date":"2016-12-26T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2017-01-17T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:54:00","slug":"james-mattis-butcher-of-fallujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"James Mattis, Butcher of Fallujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/james-mattis-awkward-fit-trump-administration\/\">On first glance,<\/a> Mattis seems to be an atypically good pick, given the general hideous nature of Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks.<\/p>\n<p>Then you get to what I called at the time the Rape of Fallujah, a deliberate attempt on my part to draw parallels between what Japanese fascists did in Nanking during World War II. I wasn&#8217;t exaggerating when I coined that phrase; <a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/old\/2004\/04.html#14090804\">at the time well in excess of 90% of the casualties were civilians.<\/a> According to Wikipedia, when the dust settled the civilian casualty rate was between 71.5% and 77% of the total casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/38620-james-mattis-is-a-war-criminal-i-experienced-his-attack-on-fallujah-firsthand\">James Mattis was in charge of that operation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Democracy Now has a piece on the Rape of Fallujah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2017\/1\/12\/investigation_did_trumps_defense_secretary_nominee\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On first glance, Mattis seems to be an atypically good pick, given the general hideous nature of Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks. Then you get to what I called at the time the Rape of Fallujah, a deliberate attempt on my part to draw parallels between what Japanese fascists did in Nanking during World War II. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}