{"id":548,"date":"2004-06-29T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=548"},"modified":"2004-06-29T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T21:10:22","slug":"trial-v-media-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Trial v. Media Sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/broodingpersian.blogspot.com\/2004_06_01_broodingpersian_archive.html#108844894709750505\">brooding persian has some thoughts<\/a> on putting Saddam on trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration would be foolish to make a summer blockbuster of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/spinoza12152003.html\">trial of Saddam<\/a>.  I think it will put the United States in an even worse light than it is now, if that&#8217;s possible, since it would be nothing more than a sham filled with deception and politicisation.  It might be a source of cheap thrills for a delusional American audience but it would create even more anger and resentment against the United States from the victims.  And if that&#8217;s the goal it&#8217;s a terrible one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>brooding persian has some thoughts on putting Saddam on trial. The Bush administration would be foolish to make a summer blockbuster of the trial of Saddam. I think it will put the United States in an even worse light than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-8Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}