{"id":7546,"date":"2006-05-30T13:31:25","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2006-05-30T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T17:31:25","slug":"last-throes-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/last-throes-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Last Throes&#8217; &#8212; one year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0505\/30\/lkl.01.html\">one year ago<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they&#8217;re in the [tag]last throes[\/tag], if you will, of the insurgency.&#8221; &#8212; [tag]Dick Cheney[\/tag], May 30, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, as recently as March, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/03\/19\/cheney-defends-last-throes\/\">[tag]Cheney [\/tag]said<\/a> the comments were &#8220;basically [tag]accurate[\/tag] and reflect [tag]reality[\/tag],&#8221; so it&#8217;s likely the significance of the one-year anniversary of the remark will be lost on the Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly one year ago today: &#8220;I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. But I think the level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they&#8217;re in the [tag]last throes[\/tag], if you will, of the insurgency.&#8221; &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546","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=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}