{"id":2980,"date":"2006-09-14T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/comic-relief-from-baghdad\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T20:33:31","slug":"comic-relief-from-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/comic-relief-from-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief from Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no dictator.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153no dictator.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is hilarious. The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. And they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even get the story line straight in a kangaroo court.<\/p>\n<p>The chief prosecutor complained that the judge has allowed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defendants to go too far, with unacceptable expressions and words.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>One presumes that the Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld will make sure the same problem doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen with the pending tribunals at Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Bush can arrange to have the same judge in case he is ever put on trial.<\/p>\n<p>[Comment <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/comic-relief-from-baghdad\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no dictator.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This is hilarious. The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. And they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even get the story line straight in a kangaroo court. The chief prosecutor complained that the judge has allowed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defendants to go too far, with unacceptable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}