{"id":8773,"date":"2006-10-16T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8773.html"},"modified":"2006-10-16T15:35:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T19:35:25","slug":"just-a-simple-question-are-we-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/just-a-simple-question-are-we-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Just a simple question: Are we winning?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/12\/20051218-2.html\">10 months ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And for every terrorist working to stop freedom in Iraq, there are many more Iraqis and Americans working to defeat them. My fellow citizens: Not only can we win the war in Iraq, we <i>are<\/i> [tag]winning[\/tag] the [tag]war[\/tag] in Iraq.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/10\/16\/snow-i-dont-know\/\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>QUESTION: Just a simple question: [tag]Are we winning[\/tag] [in [tag]Iraq[\/tag]]?<\/p>\n<p>SNOW: We&#8217;re making progress. I don&#8217;t know. How do you define winning?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George W. Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040923-8.html\">two years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can embolden an enemy by sending a mixed message. You can dispirit the Iraqi people by sending [tag]mixed messages[\/tag]. You send the wrong message to our troops by sending mixed messages. That&#8217;s why I will continue to lead with clarity and in a resolute way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted without comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag], 10 months ago: &#8220;And for every terrorist working to stop freedom in Iraq, there are many more Iraqis and Americans working to defeat them. My fellow citizens: Not only can we win the war in Iraq, we are [tag]winning[\/tag] the [tag]war[\/tag] in Iraq.&#8221; White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, today: QUESTION: Just [&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-8773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773","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=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}