{"id":270,"date":"2006-12-27T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/27\/open-letter-to-the-baath-party\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:21:17","slug":"open-letter-to-the-baath-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To The Ba’ath Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Ba’ath Party Warns It Will Hold The US Responsible”, warn the headlines, if Hussein is executed.\u00a0 So says a Ba’ath-affiliated website:<\/p>\n

“Our party warns again of the consequences of executing Mr. President and his comrades,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

“The Baath and the resistance are determined to retaliate, with all means and everywhere, to harm America and its interests if it commits this crime,” the statement added, referring to Baath fighters as “the resistance.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, goodie.\u00a0 Launch an attack on U.S. soil.\u00a0 Try to ding us on our home field.<\/p>\n

You want to guarentee a hard-line response from the American Street?\u00a0 You want to neuter the pacifist, accomodationist\u00a0wave that is about the slither into Congress?\u00a0 Do it.\u00a0 Attack us here in the States.\u00a0 I triple dog dare you.<\/p>\n

Even Democrats, mostly, aren’t stupid enough to ignore that.<\/p>\n

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The statement said that if the execution takes place, it would be impossible for the Baath to take part in any prospective negotiations with U.S. and Iraqi officials to reduce the violence in Iraq.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
That’s what we call a “collateral benefit”.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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