{"id":261,"date":"2006-12-26T18:12:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T00:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/26\/hussein-dead-man-walking\/"},"modified":"2006-12-26T18:13:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T00:13:33","slug":"hussein-dead-man-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Hussein:  Dead Tyrant Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hussein&#8217;s death sentence has been upheld.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/powerlineblog.com\/archives\/016312.php\">Hinderaker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As I&#8217;ve written before, I think it was a mistake to &#8220;try&#8221; Saddam in a court, as though there were some doubt about the murderous nature of his regime, and that doubt could somehow be resolved by a judicial proceeding. I&#8217;ve also been critical of the manner in which the trial has been conducted. It has dragged on much too long and has far too often served as a platform for Saddam&#8217;s grandstanding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting, at this time, that &#8211; ahem &#8211; it looks like my dead pool entry was, er, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/archives\/000475.html\">dead on<\/a>, if all goes according to plan.<\/p>\n<p>Someone notify Hewitt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hussein&#8217;s death sentence has been upheld. Hinderaker: As I&#8217;ve written before, I think it was a mistake to &#8220;try&#8221; Saddam in a court, as though there were some doubt about the murderous nature of his regime, and that doubt could somehow be resolved by a judicial proceeding. I&#8217;ve also been critical of the manner in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}