{"id":9247,"date":"2006-12-05T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9247.html"},"modified":"2006-12-05T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T17:24:29","slug":"are-we-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/are-we-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we winning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary nominee [tag]Robert Gates[\/tag], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/12\/05\/gates.confirmation\/index.html\">this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked if he thought the United States was winning the war in Iraq, Defense secretary nominee Robert Gates answered with a simple &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Incoming Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D- Michigan, asked the question during Gates&#8217; Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/10\/20061025.html\">six weeks ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Are we winning?<\/p>\n<p>BUSH: Absolutely, we\u2019re winning. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[tag]Bush[\/tag], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/12\/20051218-2.html\">12 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\/\">seven weeks ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: 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 &#8216;winning&#8217;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nGeorge 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>Maybe once the administration gets its story straight, it can get back to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary nominee [tag]Robert Gates[\/tag], this morning. Asked if he thought the United States was winning the war in Iraq, Defense secretary nominee Robert Gates answered with a simple &#8220;no.&#8221; Incoming Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D- Michigan, asked the question during Gates&#8217; Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag], six weeks ago: [&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-9247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247","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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}