{"id":15498,"date":"2002-10-15T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/iraqi-officials-say-privately-they-want-an-even\/"},"modified":"2002-10-15T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-15T16:01:00","slug":"iraqi-officials-say-privately-they-want-an-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/iraqi-officials-say-privately-they-want-an-even\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;[Iraqi] officials say privately they want an even higher percentage this time, with some hoping for a perfect 100 percent &lsquo;Yes&rsquo; result&rdquo; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/WORLD\/meast\/10\/15\/iraq.vote\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming Iraqi presidential referendum.<\/a>  Geez, you could at least *pretend* that it&rsquo;s a democratic election.  Why we&rsquo;ve put up with Saddam Hussein for so long, I just don&rsquo;t know.  Maybe it&rsquo;s because of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/WORLD\/meast\/08\/15\/saddam.novel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">acclaimed novels and plays<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85564234?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;[Iraqi] officials say privately they want an even higher percentage this time, with some hoping for a perfect 100 percent &lsquo;Yes&rsquo; result&rdquo; in the upcoming Iraqi presidential referendum. Geez, you could at least *pretend* that it&rsquo;s a democratic election. Why we&rsquo;ve put up with Saddam Hussein for so long, I just don&rsquo;t know. Maybe it&rsquo;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/15\/iraqi-officials-say-privately-they-want-an-even\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}