{"id":797,"date":"2003-10-28T10:18:05","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/797.html"},"modified":"2003-10-28T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T15:18:05","slug":"a-headline-so-strange-you-have-to-read-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-headline-so-strange-you-have-to-read-it-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"A headline so strange, you have to read it twice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t write about the daily battles in Iraq; they’re hard to keep up with. Nevertheless, the attacks are increasing. Our troops were experiencing as many as 25 attacks a day a couple of months ago, now it’s 35 a day. Sunday, rockets were launched at a Baghdad hotel at which Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying. An American colonel was killed and 16 people were injured.<\/p>\n

Sunday night, three more U.S. troops were killed<\/a>, and four injured, in separate attacks.<\/p>\n

And yesterday, well-coordinated attacks killed at least 35 people<\/a> and injured over 200. Among the targets were a Red Cross building in Baghdad and local police stations.<\/p>\n

It’s hard not to see these tragedies as a sign of the situation in Iraq getting considerably worse. It’s also hard to not to see President Bush as out of his mind when he argues the opposite.<\/p>\n

The front page of the Washington Post<\/a> today reads, “Bush Says Attacks Are Reflection of U.S. Gains.”<\/p>\n

Yes, according to Bush, the attacks are a good<\/i> sign.
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\nThe Post reported that Bush said yesterday’s attacks “should be seen as a sign of progress because they show the desperation of those who oppose the U.S.-led occupation.”<\/p>\n

As Bush said from the Oval Office, “The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react.”<\/p>\n

So if I’m hearing the administration correctly, when there are fewer attacks on the troops, it’s a good sign that we’re winning over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. When there are more attacks, it’s a good sign that the enemy is getting desperate.<\/p>\n

To hear the Bush White House tell it, every day in Iraq is a success and every criticism of their efforts is wrong.<\/p>\n

This administration gets scarier all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t write about the daily battles in Iraq; they’re hard to keep up with. Nevertheless, the attacks are increasing. Our troops were experiencing as many as 25 attacks a day a couple of months ago, now it’s 35 a day. Sunday, rockets were launched at a Baghdad hotel at which Deputy Defense Secretary Paul […]<\/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-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}