{"id":1179,"date":"2009-09-17T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-09-17T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T12:51:28","slug":"civility-2007-style-hanging-george-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/civility-2007-style-hanging-george-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Civility, 2007-Style:  Hanging George Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign   &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s good for the goose&#8230;.. gandar&#8221;  &#8211; refers to the recent hanging of Saddam Hussein had been hung after a kangaroo trial. (Saddam was guilty as hell of many things, but the trial process was a disgrace to the United States and to Iraq).  The Bush administration was in such a sweat to use the Saddam trial to influence the US congressional midterm elections that the Iraqi government announced Hussein&#8217;s sentence &#8211; death by hanging &#8211; even before they had officially released the sentence (which was not released until after the US election). <\/p>\n<p>The artist&#8217;s representation of George Bush could have been better, but so could the photograph itself.   Some people may have been offended by the title I added to the photo: &#8220;Bush Swings by Congress.&#8221;   (The full size version of the photograph is available  at my Flickr site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard\/372918627\/sizes\/o\/in\/set-72157594516666762\/\"><strong>here).<\/<\/strong>a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bovard\/372918627\/\" title=\"Bush Swings by Congress by Jim Bovard, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/372918627_8c8312ae23.jpg\" width=\"496\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Bush Swings by Congress\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher. Here is a picture I took at an antiwar rally in Washington in January 2007. The sign &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s good for the goose&#8230;.. gandar&#8221; &#8211; refers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[659,22,6,10,667,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-1179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-iraq"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Civility, 2007-Style: Hanging George Bush - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/17\/civility-2007-style-hanging-george-bush\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Civility, 2007-Style: Hanging George Bush - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some people who are outraged by anti-Obama placards have forgotten that, only a few years ago, many people were condemning George Bush in terms as harsh or harsher. 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