{"id":729,"date":"2004-12-15T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=729"},"modified":"2004-12-15T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T19:29:32","slug":"allawis-election-gimmickry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"Allawi&#8217;s election &#8220;gimmickry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News outlets <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=allawi+trials\">everywhere<\/a> have been releasing  reports that trials are to commence next week in Iraq and that Chemical Ali&#8217;s would be the first.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=allawi+trials\">according to Michael Scharf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.case.edu\/faculty\/faculty_detail.asp?adj=0&#038;id=142\">Case Western<\/a> international law professor who was assigned the task of teaching lower-levell Iraqi judges about genocide, this is nothing more than election gimmickry.  <\/p>\n<p>Whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/index.cfm?c_id=2&#038;ObjectID=9003444\">Allawi<\/a> lied or he&#8217;s an idiot, it&#8217;s certainly beginning to resemble U.S. elections, isn&#8217;t it.  That&#8217;s a good thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News outlets everywhere have been releasing reports that trials are to commence next week in Iraq and that Chemical Ali&#8217;s would be the first. However, according to Michael Scharf, Case Western international law professor who was assigned the task of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=729\">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-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-bL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}