{"id":10746,"date":"2007-05-09T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10746.html"},"modified":"2007-05-09T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T16:35:16","slug":"so-now-its-game-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/so-now-its-game-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So now<\/i> it’s ‘game time’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll no doubt be pleased to know that now, with the war in Iraq in its fifth year, Dick Cheney believes it’s time to get serious<\/a> about this thing.<\/p>\n

Cheney’s message with Iraqi leaders, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters, was to be: “We’ve all got challenges together. We’ve got to pull together. We’ve got to get this work done. It’s game time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s certainly good to know. After more than four years of sacrificing blood and treasure, our powerful VP wants Iraqis to know that now<\/i> it’s game time. As if “the last four years have just been a scrimmage<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

For that matter, it was also encouraging to see that Cheney’s priorities<\/a> are still intact.<\/p>\n

Once safely ensconced in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, however, Cheney appeared to reserve his toughest language for his normal target — the press. Cheney held a lot of photo ops with key Iraqi leaders like Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but was adamant about not taking questions. At one point, Cheney emphasized to the assembled journalists that “this is just a photo spray.” Later in the day, as reporters filed into an embassy conference room for another photo of Cheney they overheard him tell his staff “then we kick the press out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, journalists on hand for Cheney’s second visit to Iraq thought it might be a good time to ask questions of the man who helps shape war policy. The nerve.<\/p>\n

On a far more serious note, right around the time Cheney acknowledged that there are still “some security problems” in Iraq, the AP said<\/a> there was “a thunderous explosion that rattled windows in the U.S. embassy where he spent most of the day.” The VP was unharmed and his meetings were reportedly uninterrupted.<\/p>\n

I guess it was a stark reminder about this being “game time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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