{"id":2729,"date":"2002-09-29T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2002-09-29T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2002-09-29T22:38:07","slug":"eenie_meenie_mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/29\/eenie_meenie_mi.html","title":{"rendered":"Eenie-meenie-minie-moe …"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after careful forensic analysis and similar double-talkey hoo-hah, more “experts” have decided that Saddam Hussein has at least three doubles<\/a> (and hasn’t actually been seen in public since 1998).<\/p>\n

It’s been long rumored that Hussein uses doubles extensively, as part of the massive shell game he plays on a daily basis, never letting anyone know where the real Saddam is, lest a cruise missile (or disgruntled security agent or bodyguard) take him out.<\/p>\n

So we already pretty well knew he had doubles. The real question is — do we have a good DNA sample of him, so that … well, should something untoward happen, we have some proof that it happened to him<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Actually, now that I think of it, hasn’t at least one of his sons defected? That might come in handy …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So after careful forensic analysis and similar double-talkey hoo-hah, more “experts” have decided that Saddam Hussein has at least three doubles (and hasn’t actually been seen in public since 1998)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3753,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/02\/wheres_saddam.html","url_meta":{"origin":2729,"position":0},"title":"Where’s Saddam?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Apr-03 7:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"From Day 1 of the war, when a \"decapitation\" strike was launched to try to take out Saddam Hussein from where inside intel had him hunkered down, there have been...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4050,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/23\/trust_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":2729,"position":1},"title":"Trust","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Feb-03 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some interesting analysis here about Saddam Hussein, his WMD programs, and the \"popular wisdom\" that he's a crafty guy who'd never do anything that would actually threaten him. 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