{"id":1807,"date":"2003-12-03T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2003-12-03T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T22:07:00","slug":"iraqi-resistance-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/12\/03\/18\/07\/iraqi-resistance-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Resistance Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s exciting to see that some Iraqis are enjoying the democratic process&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/view.cfm?StoryID=20031203-115217-9537r\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But my colleagues and I don&#8217;t hate the American people or even most of the soldiers,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We just want them out of our land. If they promised to leave in one month and hold elections we would put down our arms. I don&#8217;t want to kill anyone else. I don&#8217;t want American to hate Iraq. I would wait to see if they left.&#8221; But the decision has already been made by his cell, comprised of former Baath Party members, that Saddam cannot return to power. &#8220;We actually took a vote at a meeting last week,&#8221; he says, laughing. &#8220;If the Americans leave and Saddam comes back, we will fight him too. Maybe if he were elected we&#8217;d allow it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s exciting to see that some Iraqis are enjoying the democratic process&#8230; &#8220;But my colleagues and I don&#8217;t hate the American people or even most of the soldiers,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We just want them&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}