{"id":480,"date":"2002-10-07T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-07T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=480"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:54","slug":"duelling-dickheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Duelling Dickheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\\&#8217;t been able to track down the complete story, but I\\&#8217;ve heard rumors and fragments of a report that a high-ranking Iraqi official has suggested a duel between W and Saddam. I haven\\&#8217;t heard a response from either side. But considering all the Bush family\\&#8217;s macho posturing on this issue, this seems like an opportunity that W couldn\\&#8217;t pass up. And surely Saddam is crazy enough to go along. It really sounds like a no-lose proposition fur the US. Worst case is we end up with Saddam still running Iraq (or running amok), and Dick Cheney running the US. And isn\\&#8217;t that just where we are now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\\&#8217;t been able to track down the complete story, but I\\&#8217;ve heard rumors and fragments of a report that a high-ranking Iraqi official has suggested a duel between W and Saddam. I haven\\&#8217;t heard a response from either side. But considering all the Bush family\\&#8217;s macho posturing on this issue, this seems like an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=480\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duelling Dickheads<\/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-480","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-7K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","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=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}