{"id":4520,"date":"2005-06-23T12:41:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4520.html"},"modified":"2005-06-23T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:41:44","slug":"not-exactly-the-last-throes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/not-exactly-the-last-throes\/","title":{"rendered":"Not exactly the &#8216;last throes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000963211\">struggle<\/a> in defending Dick Cheney&#8217;s assertion that the insurgency in Iraq is in its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/05\/30\/cheney.iraq\/\">last throes<\/a>,&#8221; but at least one leading military official doesn&#8217;t mind acknowledging the truth: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/23\/AR2005062300242.html\">Cheney&#8217;s wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The top American military commander in the Persian Gulf disputed a contention by Vice President Dick Cheney that the Iraqi insurgency was in its &#8220;last throes&#8221; and told Congress on Thursday its strength was basically undiminished from six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Gen. John Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee, &#8220;I believe there are more foreign fighters coming into Iraq than there were six months ago.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee&#8217;s senior Democrat, asked Abizaid if he realized he was contradicting Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know that I would make any comment about that other than to say there&#8217;s a lot of work to be done,&#8221; said Abizaid. &#8220;I gave you my opinion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders how the White House might try and punish Abizaid for publicly contradicting Cheney. &#8220;Reality-based&#8221; admissions of fact are so unwelcome&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House may struggle in defending Dick Cheney&#8217;s assertion that the insurgency in Iraq is in its &#8220;last throes,&#8221; but at least one leading military official doesn&#8217;t mind acknowledging the truth: Cheney&#8217;s wrong. The top American military commander in the Persian Gulf disputed a contention by Vice President Dick Cheney that the Iraqi insurgency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}