{"id":949,"date":"2006-11-05T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T09:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2006-11-05T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T10:09:15","slug":"945-of-saddam-husseins-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"[945] Of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Iraq is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/05\/world\/middleeast\/05cnd-saddam.html?hp&#038;ex=1162789200&#038;en=55feeded58d269df&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">sentenced to death<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) &#8212; Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for war crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail, as the former leader, trembling, shouted &#8220;God is great!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As he, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to hang, Saddam yelled out, &#8220;Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though a dictator he was, merciless in his reign, I feel a hint of pity for him. From my point of view, life imprisonment would suffice. A little show of mercy would have been more powerful as an example than a simple act of revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Iraq is sentenced to death: BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) &#8212; Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for war crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail, as the former leader, trembling, shouted &#8220;God is great!&#8221; As he, his half brother and another senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}