{"id":395,"date":"2003-01-31T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:57","slug":"who-gassed-the-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Who gassed the Kurds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular arguments in favor of annihilating Iraq is that Saddam Hussein is a monster who used chemical weapons on his own civilians.  One problem with this logic is that, although such action is indefensible, it doesn&#8217;t make much sense to rush into a war that will result in the deaths of more of these civilians that we are allegedly avenging.  Another problem with it, which I just recently learned, is that it might not really be true. A <i>New York Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/01\/31\/opinion\/31PELL.html?th\" Target=\"Offsite\">op\/ed<\/a> from someone in a position to know indicates that this popular &#8220;fact&#8221; is really speculation at best.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular arguments in favor of annihilating Iraq is that Saddam Hussein is a monster who used chemical weapons on his own civilians. One problem with this logic is that, although such action is indefensible, it doesn&#8217;t make much sense to rush into a war that will result in the deaths of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who gassed the Kurds?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-6n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}