{"id":9312,"date":"2006-12-12T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9312.html"},"modified":"2006-12-12T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T15:20:09","slug":"rice-very-proud-of-us-war-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/rice-very-proud-of-us-war-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice &#8216;very proud&#8217; of U.S. war in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denial is such a sad emotional state for a presidential administration to be in. Bush says we&#8217;re &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/10\/20061025.html\">absolutely<\/a>&#8221; winning in Iraq; Cheney says the general situation in Iraq is going &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/10\/17\/cheney-rush\/\">remarkably well<\/a>&#8220;; and Condoleezza Rice is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20061212\/pl_afp\/iraqconflictusrice_061212140207\">very proud<\/a>&#8221; to have been a part of this mission.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure there are many, many things that we could have done differently, maybe should have done differently,&#8221; Rice said when asked if she had any regrets over her part in the war.<\/p>\n<p>But she added: &#8220;It&#8217;s not just that I don&#8217;t regret having participated in the liberation of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein &#8212; but I&#8217;m very proud that this country finally helped to liberate 25 million Iraqis&#8221; from the dictator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rice should feel a lot of emotions about Iraq right now (&#8220;shame&#8221; comes to mind), but &#8220;pride&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denial is such a sad emotional state for a presidential administration to be in. Bush says we&#8217;re &#8220;absolutely&#8221; winning in Iraq; Cheney says the general situation in Iraq is going &#8220;remarkably well&#8220;; and Condoleezza Rice is &#8220;very proud&#8221; to have been a part of this mission. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there are many, many things that we [&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-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","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=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}