{"id":12823,"date":"2007-09-09T13:45:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T17:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12823.html"},"modified":"2007-09-09T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T17:45:09","slug":"a-question-of-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-question-of-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"A question of credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Video\/playerIndex?id=3577245\">this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Americans are sad, they&#8217;re frustrated, they&#8217;re angry, and they want out. And I understand that; there were four years of failure under Rumsfeld. As you know, I spoke out early on, in November of 2003, saying that strategy was doomed to failure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/08\/18\/mccain-greatest-critic\/\">in December 2003<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a mission accomplished. They know how much influence Saddam Hussein had on the Iraqi people, how much more difficult it made to get their cooperation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/08\/18\/mccain-greatest-critic\/\">in March 2004<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m confident we&#8217;re on the right course.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/08\/18\/mccain-greatest-critic\/\">in December 2005<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I do think that progress is being made in a lot of Iraq. Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course. If I thought we weren&#8217;t making progress, I&#8217;d be despondent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When war supporters like McCain wonder why they have credibility problems when it comes to Iraq policy, this might offer a hint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), this morning: &#8220;Americans are sad, they&#8217;re frustrated, they&#8217;re angry, and they want out. And I understand that; there were four years of failure under Rumsfeld. As you know, I spoke out early on, in November of 2003, saying that strategy was doomed to failure.&#8221; McCain, in December 2003: &#8220;This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}