{"id":45,"date":"2004-10-16T02:56:49","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T07:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=45"},"modified":"2004-10-16T02:56:49","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T07:56:49","slug":"the-butcher-of-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/10\/16\/the-butcher-of-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butcher of Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TQP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quranproject.com\/2004\/10\/this-is-what-we-are-fighting-folks.html\">reminds us<\/a> of what we&#8217;re fighting to eradicate. Saddam Hussein may be gone, but people bent on returning the old order are attacking the Iraqi people and coalition troops virtually every day.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor some background on the Iraqi dictator&#8217;s regime, Shia News has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shianews.com\/hi\/articles\/politics\/0000346.phpf\">brief overview<\/a> of some of the atrocities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TQP reminds us of what we&#8217;re fighting to eradicate. Saddam Hussein may be gone, but people bent on returning the old order are attacking the Iraqi people and coalition troops virtually every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}