{"id":957,"date":"2003-12-16T10:05:46","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/957.html"},"modified":"2003-12-16T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T15:05:46","slug":"this-guy-has-been-hired-as-one-of-our-security-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/this-guy-has-been-hired-as-one-of-our-security-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"This guy has been hired as one of our security guards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my regular readers, whom I fondly refer to as Dr. Who, noticed an odd quote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3708757\/\">an MSNBC story<\/a> about Iraqis&#8217; reaction to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The story played it pretty straight, quoting some Iraqis who were thrilled by the news and others who were disappointed. But at the end, there was this:<\/p>\n<p><i>At the Palestine hotel, where foreign journalists and American contract workers are staying, Abil Daoud was sad. &#8220;We lost our only hope and now we are stuck with the Americans,&#8221; said Daoud, who is employed by U.S. troops as a local security guard.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Come again? I don&#8217;t know anything about Abil Daoud, so far be it for me to condemn him to unemployment on the basis of one quote, but why has the U.S. military hired &#8212; as a <i>security guard<\/i> &#8212; someone who considered Saddam Hussein the Iraqis&#8217; &#8220;only hope&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Just wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my regular readers, whom I fondly refer to as Dr. Who, noticed an odd quote in an MSNBC story about Iraqis&#8217; reaction to Saddam Hussein&#8217;s arrest. The story played it pretty straight, quoting some Iraqis who were thrilled by the news and others who were disappointed. But at the end, there was this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}