{"id":286,"date":"2007-04-09T08:03:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T13:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/washington-posts-regret-saddam-is-gone\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T13:03:29","slug":"washington-posts-regret-saddam-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post&#8217;s regret; Saddam is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/08\/AR2007040801058.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post&#8217;s Sudarsan Raghavan<\/a> wistfully writes about one single Iraqi who regrets that Saddam is gone;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crowds of chanting Iraqis, some clutching stones and sandals, swarmed Firdaus Square to deliver blows to the statue. Then, with the help of an American tank and a winch, it toppled, creating one of the defining images of the U.S.-led invasion. Over one photo of Jubouri, a headline reads: &#8220;The Fall of Baghdad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It achieved nothing,&#8221; he said, after he had put away the magazines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, three .html pages of one Iraqi&#8217;s opinion &#8211; Khadim al-Jubouri a motorcycle mechanic for Hussein and his sons wishes Hussein were back. That&#8217;s what passes for news these days &#8211; one guy is unhappy with the Iraqi government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article today, the Washington Post&#8217;s Sudarsan Raghavan wistfully writes about one single Iraqi who &hellip; <a title=\"Washington Post&#8217;s regret; Saddam is gone\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=286\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington Post&#8217;s regret; Saddam is gone<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}