{"id":177,"date":"2006-09-14T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/comic-relief-from-baghdad\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T20:06:02","slug":"comic-relief-from-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/comic-relief-from-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Relief from Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/mem\/tnt.html?emc=tnt&#038;tntget=2006\/09\/14\/world\/middleeast\/15iraqcnd.html&#038;tntemail1=y\"><strong>no dictator.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is hilarious.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. And they can\u2019t even get the story line straight in a kangaroo court.<\/p>\n<p>The chief prosecutor complained that the judge has allowed &#8220;defendants to go too far, with unacceptable expressions and words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One presumes that the Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld will make sure the same problem doesn&#8217;t happen with the pending tribunals at Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Bush can arrange to have the same judge in case he is ever put on trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was \u201cno dictator.\u201d This is hilarious.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. And they can\u2019t even get the story line straight in a kangaroo court. The chief prosecutor complained that the judge has allowed &#8220;defendants to go too far, with unacceptable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush-betrayal"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Comic Relief from Baghdad - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/14\/comic-relief-from-baghdad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Comic Relief from Baghdad - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was \u201cno dictator.\u201d This is hilarious.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. 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