{"id":80,"date":"2005-02-16T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-06-22T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T19:14:43","slug":"sigh-iwheni-is-his-term-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"*Sigh* <i>When<\/i> Is His Term Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/iraq\/la-na-pow15feb15,0,3155150.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">this article<\/a> on Fark today. Seems the government is preventing US soldiers tortured by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s forces in the previous Gulf War from collecting a $1 billion judgement handed to them by US District Court in 2003. Scott McClellan told reporters that the money (to be taken  from $1.7 billion in Iraqi assets frozen in US banks) is needed to help rebuild Iraq&#8230;.should have thought of that before you blew it apart, dude.<\/p>\n<p>Keep this in mind when you consider letting these bozos draft tort reform legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught this article on Fark today. Seems the government is preventing US soldiers tortured by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s forces in the previous Gulf War from collecting a $1 billion judgement handed to them by US District Court in 2003. Scott McClellan told reporters that the money (to be taken from $1.7 billion in Iraqi assets frozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}