{"id":481,"date":"2003-04-09T06:51:35","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T11:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=481"},"modified":"2003-04-09T06:51:35","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T11:51:35","slug":"sows_ears_from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/09\/sows_ears_from.html","title":{"rendered":"Sow’s ears from silk purses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrea points out <\/a>a case where even a story like this<\/a> …<\/p>\n

More than 100 children held in a prison celebrated their freedom Tuesday as US marines rolled into northeast Baghdad amid chaotic scenes which saw civilians loot weapons from an army compound, a US officer said.
\nAround 150 children spilled out of the jail after the gates were opened as a US military Humvee vehicle approached, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Padilla told an AFP correspondent travelling with the Marines 5th Regiment.
\n“Hundreds of kids were swarming us and kissing us,” Padilla said. “There were parents running up, so happy to have their kids back.”
\n“The children had been imprisoned because they had not joined the youth branch of the Baath party,” he alleged. “Some of these kids had been in there for five years.”<\/p>\n

… some folks are more than willing to spin it like this commenter<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Of course the thousands that have been killed, lost limbs, or lost family members would be alive, whole and have parents. But hey, at the very least, these 100 kids are now free to roam around the city and have a cruise missle land on their heads.<\/p>\n

What a maroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea points out a case where even a story like this … More than 100 children held in a prison celebrated their freedom Tuesday as US marines rolled into northeast…<\/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-481","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":4849,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/18\/due_process.html","url_meta":{"origin":481,"position":0},"title":"Due process","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Dec-03 11:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that Jose Padilla cannot be detained as an enemy combatant (previous commentary here and here). 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