{"id":740,"date":"2002-10-10T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/10\/a-proposal\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T23:41:24","slug":"a-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/10\/a-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15763,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.google.com\\\/news?hl=en&amp;q=maryland+sniper&amp;btnG=Google+Search&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160602005943\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.google.com\\\/news?hl=en&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:33:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:45:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:45:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15764,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com\\\/news\\\/worldnews\\\/58595.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20021019110129\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.nypost.com:80\\\/news\\\/worldnews\\\/58595.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 22:33:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:45:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:45:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>If\/when we catch the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;q=maryland+sniper&amp;btnG=Google+Search\" title=\"Google News Search for 'maryland sniper'\">Maryland sniper<\/a>, howabout we just airlift him into Iraq and set him loose on Saddam?<\/p>\n<p>No, this isn&#8217;t entirely serious. Just a brain fart.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about killing two birds with one stone, though. Remove Saddam from power (okay, via assassination, which the U.S. really isn&#8217;t supposed to condone, even though Ari Fleischer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/worldnews\/58595.htm\" title=\"'One bullet' for Saddam\">doesn&#8217;t seem to know that<\/a>), and since the sniper isn&#8217;t likely to make it out of Iraq alive after offing Saddam, we save the trouble of all the trials, media frenzy, and eventual death sentence over here. Hmmm&hellip;.<\/p>\n<p>Again &mdash; this is <em>not<\/em> a serious suggestion. Just some random rambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If\/when we catch the Maryland sniper, howabout we just airlift him into Iraq and set him loose on Saddam?<\/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":[14],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}