{"id":8140,"date":"2006-08-07T13:17:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T17:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8140.html"},"modified":"2006-08-07T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T17:17:39","slug":"civil-war-this-civil-war-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/civil-war-this-civil-war-that\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Civil war this, civil war that&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/08\/03\/abizaid-civil-war\/\">Last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gen. John Abizaid, the Commander of the U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq may be on the brink of a civil war, noting that the violence in Baghdad was worse than at any point <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3053242.stm\">since he assumed command in July 2003<\/a>&#8230;. Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/08\/03\/new-iraq-vote\/\">I believe we do have the possibility of that devolving to a civil war<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14215314\/page\/3\/\">Yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The president is going to listen to his commanders on the ground,&#8221; Condoleezza Rice said, &#8220;and he&#8217;s going to respond to what they, what they say.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/08\/20060807.html\">This morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know, I hear people say, well, civil war this, civil war that,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;The Iraqi people decided against civil war when they went to the ballot box. And a unity government is working to respond to the will of the people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the president really did say, &#8220;civil war this, civil war that,&#8221; as if it were a vaguely trivial matter that&#8217;s hardly worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>As for the efficacy of the unity government, as Judd <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/08\/07\/iraq-civil-war-3\/\">noted<\/a>, &#8220;More than 100 Iraqi civilians are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/18\/news\/iraq.php\">dying per day<\/a>, mostly in sectarian violence, according to a recent U.N. report.&#8221; It sounds like just another concern for Bush to dismiss with his trademark cavalier attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week: Gen. John Abizaid, the Commander of the U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Iraq may be on the brink of a civil war, noting that the violence in Baghdad was worse than at any point since he assumed command in July 2003&#8230;. Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint [&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-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","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=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}