{"id":1099,"date":"2003-04-10T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/10\/questions-regarding-saddams-statue\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:40:35","slug":"questions-regarding-saddams-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/10\/questions-regarding-saddams-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions regarding Saddam&#039;s statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14881,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.agonist.org\\\/archives\\\/001332.html#001332&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050110100017\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.agonist.org:80\\\/archives\\\/001332.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 05:29:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:19:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:19:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14882,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.kynn.com\\\/shock\\\/archive\\\/000311.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030802061459\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blog.kynn.com:80\\\/shock\\\/archive\\\/000311.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 05:29:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:20:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:20:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:500},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14883,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dc.indymedia.org\\\/front.php3?article_id=63743&amp;group=webcast&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030718161539\\\/http:\\\/\\\/dc.indymedia.org:80\\\/front.php3?article_id=63743&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 05:29:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:20:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 03:20:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some questions regarding the widely publicised images of Saddam&#8217;s statue getting toppled. This is more information that resides in that netherland of suspicion, rumor, and possible conspiracy theories, so keep that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agonist.org\/archives\/001332.html#001332\" title=\"Kynn Bartlett has some comments...\">this Agonist post<\/a>, we go to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kynn.com\/shock\/archive\/000311.php\" title=\"About that dead statue...\">Kynn Bartlett&#8217;s comments<\/a> on the apparent <em>lack<\/em> of people involved in the toppling of the statue, and then a comment to Kynn&#8217;s post by &#8216;Citizen Able&#8217; leads us to <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.indymedia.org\/front.php3?article_id=63743&amp;group=webcast\" title=\"Staged 'liberation' media event?\">this DC Indymedia post<\/a> with another look at the picture in question, along with some other (less credible, IMHO) implications.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, this is definitely veering further into possible paranoid conspiracy theory territory. The thing is, those are just so much <em>fun!<\/em> Just remember not to disengage your brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some questions regarding the widely publicised images of Saddam&#8217;s statue getting toppled. This is more information that resides in that netherland of suspicion, rumor, and possible conspiracy theories, so keep that in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}