{"id":745,"date":"2003-12-14T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-14T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/14\/12-14-03\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T03:27:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T11:27:17","slug":"saddam-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/14\/saddam-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Saddam Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20031203saddam%20raid.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"220\" width=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo is from an CNN News report.<\/p>\n<p>The caption reads: Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division found a large cache of weapons and ammunition as well as photos that showed Tikrit residents with Saddam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Wow, he was really packin&#8217;.<br \/>\nHmm.<br \/>\nMy sister tells me, &#8220;&#8230;but he was all alone so that means it is not him organizing the attacks on troops&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, maybe it&#8217;s a public uprising and the people never wanted to be &#8220;liberated&#8221; after all.<\/p>\n<p>Nah. That would mean that the US forces in Iraq were &#8220;invaders&#8221;, not &#8220;liberators&#8221;. That would make every American a murderer by proxy. And that can&#8217;t be true. I mean, I didn&#8217;t kill anybody, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is from an CNN News report. The caption reads: Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division found a large cache of weapons and ammunition as well as photos that showed Tikrit residents with Saddam. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Wow, he was really packin&#8217;. Hmm. My sister tells me, &#8220;&#8230;but he was all alone so that means it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}