{"id":349,"date":"2003-12-16T22:27:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-16T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T05:27:49","slug":"iraqi-communist-party-takes-lead-as-anti-saddam-demonstrations-wane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/16\/iraqi-communist-party-takes-lead-as-anti-saddam-demonstrations-wane\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Communist Party Takes Lead as Anti-Saddam Demonstrations Wane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/photos\/perm\/reds.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"171\" align=\"right\">Pro-Saddam demonstrations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P338_0_1_0\">are on the rise and being put down by US troops.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the initial spurt of anti-Saddam demonstrations <a href=\"http:\/\/icwales.icnetwork.co.uk\/0100news\/0700world\/content_objectid=13729568_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-US---Saddam-spilling-beans-on-uprising--name_page.html\">seems to have dissapated, with &#8220;Only small groups of Communist Party supporters were seen celebrating in the capital.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.yahoo.com\/search\/news\/?c=news_photos&#038;p=saddam+communist\">Iraq&#8217;s Communist Party has organized demonstrations all over the country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P339_0_1_0\">Matthew Barganier pointed out, <\/a>the should drive the neocons crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Saddam demonstrations are on the rise and being put down by US troops. Meanwhile, the initial spurt of anti-Saddam demonstrations seems to have dissapated, with &#8220;Only small groups of Communist Party supporters were seen celebrating in the capital.&#8221; Iraq&#8217;s Communist Party has organized demonstrations all over the country. As Matthew Barganier pointed out, the should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-349","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\/349","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}