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Here’s a charming obit of General “Chemical” Ali Hassan al-Majid<\/a>. <\/p>\n

His death was far quicker than the many he inflicted. One’s only consolation is that, either by the religious beliefs of his countrymen, or my own, he’s in a lot <\/i>more trouble now than he would have been before a war tribunal.<\/p>\n

(via Command Post<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a charming obit of General “Chemical” Ali Hassan al-Majid. His death was far quicker than the many he inflicted. One’s only consolation is that, either by the religious beliefs…<\/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-484","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":30576,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/a-note-to-movie-makers-and-writers-regarding-weaponry.html","url_meta":{"origin":484,"position":0},"title":"A note to movie-makers (and writers) regarding weaponry","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Oct-12 10:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, here's a shock: movies (and, honestly, literature) have made basic weapon functionality much more interesting and romantic than it really is. 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