{"id":23057,"date":"2016-07-15T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23057"},"modified":"2016-07-15T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:27:16","slug":"i-am-heartbroken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/i-am-heartbroken\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am     Heartbroken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ever since &quot;I am Paris&quot;, we have witnessed an ever increasing smorgasbord of terrorism that we might as keep a stock &quot;I am __________!&quot;, so that we can fill in the blank with the targeted city du jour. We are seeing far too many victims in far too many cities!&#160; I am <u>heartbroken<\/u>!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0715nice-truck\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0715nice-truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0715nice-truck.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The truck deliberately zigzagged with its headlights off through a large crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France. <\/li>\n<li>At least 84 people were killed and at least 50 children hospitalized, French officials said. <\/li>\n<li>The truck was \u201cloaded with arms and grenades,\u201d a local official said, but some were reportedly fake. <\/li>\n<li>The driver has been identified as a 31-year-old French-Tunisian named Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The vicious Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/753823506480050176\" target=\"_blank\">killed at least 84 people<\/a> was an act of terrorism, France\u2019s President Francois Hollande said early Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-crash-idUSKCN0ZU2K7\" target=\"_blank\">Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel<\/a>, a 31-year-old French Tunisian, plowed a vehicle-turned-weapon into a crowd of people who were watching fireworks. He drove for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/least-60-killed-nice-truck-attack-prosecutors-230251859.html?ref=gs\" target=\"_blank\">more than a mile<\/a> before police shot him dead, Agence-France Press reported. The truck was loaded with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/753730496383819777\" target=\"_blank\">\u201carms and grenades,\u201d<\/a> Region President Christian Estrosi said, but some of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2016\/jul\/14\/nice-bastille-day-france-attack-promenade-des-anglais-vehicle\" target=\"_blank\">were fake.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/france-nice-crash-attack_us_5787ff28e4b0867123e07dd1\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The US contributes to the problem in three key ways.&#160; First, as long as we support an Israeli regime that oppresses the Palestinian people and violates international by pursuing a one state solution by military force, radical Muslims will attack us and our allies.&#160; Second, as long as we support Saudi Arabia, that has financed more terrorism that any nation in the world, except the US, more funding and weapons will keep flowing to terrorists.&#160; Third, as long as we lead the world in oil consumption, control of the oil fields of the middle east will be a US national security interest, putting us at odds with the people who want to control their own oil fields.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since &quot;I am Paris&quot;, we have witnessed an ever increasing smorgasbord of terrorism that we might as keep a stock &quot;I am __________!&quot;, so that we can fill in the blank with the targeted city du jour. We are seeing far too many victims in far too many cities!&#160; I am heartbroken! 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