He must be snorting something<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. Dummy Boy Never mind that it was the third bomb of the week “aimed at Iraqi security forces.” Never Never mind that insurgents control Falluja. Never mind that “American forces have lost Never mind that “polls show increasing anti-U.S. He must be snorting something. Dummy Boy insists, “I’m pleased with the progress” in Iraq. That’s what he told a New Hampshire newspaper in an interview published Saturday, the same day a suicide car bomb killed 19 people and wounded 67, when it “plowed into a crowd of men seeking jobs with the Iraqi National Guard” […]<\/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-828","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-dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ninsists, “I’m pleased with the
\nprogress”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in Iraq. That’s what he told a New Hampshire newspaper in
\nan interview published Saturday, the same day a suicide car bomb killed 19 people and
\nwounded 67<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, when it “plowed into a crowd of men seeking jobs with the
\nIraqi National Guard” in Kirkuk.<\/P>
\n
\nmind that “attacks on state officials have become common.” Never mind the kidnappings<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> of
\nforeigners. Never mind the sabotaged oil pipelines. Never mind the campaign “to cripple the
\ninstitutions of the interim government.” <\/P>
\n
\ncontro<\/FONT>l<\/B><\/A> over at least one provincial capital, Ramadi, and have only a tenuous
\ngrip over a second, Baquba,” another provincial capital near Baghdad. Never mind
\nthat “other large cities in the region, like Samarra, are largely in the hands of insurgents.”<\/P>
\n
\nsentiment<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> and a growing sense that American forces should get out and leave
\nthings to the Iraqis.” Especially never mind the National Intelligence Estimate that says civil war
\ncould erupt down the road. (See DARK DAYS AHEAD<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.) Why
\nshouldn’t he be “pleased with the progress” in Iraq?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"