{"id":2807,"date":"2004-10-19T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2807.html"},"modified":"2004-10-19T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T19:04:03","slug":"mcclellan-chides-reality-based-community-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mcclellan-chides-reality-based-community-again\/","title":{"rendered":"McClellan chides reality-based community again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invaluable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/politics\/administration\/whbriefing\/\">Dan Froomkin offered<\/a> readers a valuable transcript from Scott McClellan&#8217;s gaggle yesterday. One gets the impression that the guy is starting to waver under the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters saw yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A40321-2004Oct17.html\">front-page story<\/a> that highlighted a previously confidential memo from Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. The documents noted Sanchez&#8217;s complaints to the Pentagon last winter that his supply situation was so poor that it threatened Army troops&#8217; ability to fight. McClellan was asked for an explanation. He said it was John Kerry&#8217;s fault.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McClellan: The President is the one who supported and fought for the $87 billion in funding for the necessary resources for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. His opponent opposed the $87 billion to provide our troops with equipment and resources they needed to do the job. <\/p>\n<p>Q: Scott, that&#8217;s not the issue. <\/p>\n<p>McClellan: No, it is the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A44232-2004Oct19.html\">tried the same thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Sanchez] was asking about much needed supplies. The Congress had an opportunity to vote on funding to get those supplies in the pipeline. And my opponent voted against that funding.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The $87 billion package <i>passed<\/i> in November 2003. Sanchez wrote to the Pentagon in December 2003 saying he didn&#8217;t have the resources he needed to win. This is Kerry&#8217;s fault&#8230;why?<\/p>\n<p>The Bush gang really doesn&#8217;t wear desperation well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invaluable Dan Froomkin offered readers a valuable transcript from Scott McClellan&#8217;s gaggle yesterday. One gets the impression that the guy is starting to waver under the pressure. Reporters saw yesterday&#8217;s front-page story that highlighted a previously confidential memo from Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. The documents noted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}