{"id":799,"date":"2004-09-16T05:49:58","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/09\/dark_days_ahead\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T05:49:58","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T12:49:58","slug":"dark_days_ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/09\/dark_days_ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"DARK DAYS AHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headlines don’t say it all, but this subhead comes close: “Civil War Called Possible — Tone
\nDiffers From Public Statements.” It’s missing from the online edition of the story,
\nwhich uses the main head only: “U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq’s
\nFuture.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> <\/FONT>Taken together, their
\nmeaning is this: Our Nincompoop in Chief and his minions have been lying about the
\nwar in Iraq.<\/P>
\n

Douglas Jehl reports that “a classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President
\nBush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq” and that “the pessimistic tone
\nof the new estimate stands in contrast to recent statements by Bush administration officials,
\nincluding comments on Wednesday by Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, who
\nasserted that progress was being made.”<\/P>
\n

Does this sound like progress? “The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the
\nend of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war. … The most
\nfavorable outcome described is an Iraq whose stability would remain tenuous in political,
\neconomic and security terms.”<\/P>
\n

Maybe Dummy Boy, Bunker Boy and Rummy Boy haven’t taken a good look at the map of
\nIraq lately. When John Kerry says Dummy Boy is living in a “fantasy world of spin,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> he’s
\nbeing charitable.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headlines don’t say it all, but this subhead comes close: “Civil War Called Possible — Tone Differs From Public Statements.” It’s missing from the online edition of the story, which uses the main head only: “U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq’s Future.” Taken together, their meaning is this: Our Nincompoop in Chief and his minions have been lying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}