{"id":846,"date":"2004-10-05T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/tuesday_ayem_briefing\/"},"modified":"2004-10-05T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T16:31:28","slug":"tuesday_ayem_briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/tuesday_ayem_briefing.html","title":{"rendered":"TUESDAY AYEM BRIEFING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Bremer now
\nsays<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, “We never had enough troops on the ground” in Iraq. This
\nconfirms Tom Friedman’s description of the Rumsfeld Doctrine<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, noted in his
\ncolumn on Sunday, as “just enough troops to
\nlose.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/P>
\n

Meantime, if you didn’t read Sunday’s immense, detailed report<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> by
\nDavid Barst and Jeff Gerth on how the White House conjured so-called “irrefutable evidence” of
\nSaddam Hussein’s purported nuclear weapons program out of intelligence based on wrong factual
\ndata in order to justify the invasion of Iraq, while suppressing contrary intelligence and doubts by
\nnuclear experts, you can read an editorial summarizing the report today: “The Nuclear Bomb That
\nWasn’t.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> <\/P>
\n

The editorial not only dismisses the prevaricatin’ prez’s “frequent claim that Congress
\nhad the same information he had” when it voted to authorize the invasion, it accuses top
\nadministration officials of dishonesty and selling the world a bill of goods. It specifically names
\nDick Cheney, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, calling for her resignation
\nbecause of incompetence at the very least. As Paul Krugman also writes<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> this morning for the umpteenth
\ntime: “Yes, Virginia, we were misled into war.”<\/P>
\n

In a parallel universe, David “Bobo” Brooks goes on his merry way this morning about
\n“Quickening the Tempo in
\nIraq,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/B> with the dim notion that the U.S. may soon be able to set realistic
\ngoals there. He adduces his evidence in large part from a conversaton he had yesterday with
\nRumsfeld, who told him “Iraq had ‘a crack’ at being a success.” Grasping at straws, Bobo
\nconcludes: “At least he’s not overhyping.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Bremer now says, “We never had enough troops on the ground” in Iraq. This confirms Tom Friedman’s description of the Rumsfeld Doctrine, noted in his column on Sunday, as “just enough troops to lose.” Meantime, if you didn’t read Sunday’s immense, detailed report by David Barst and Jeff Gerth on how the White House conjured […]<\/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-846","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-dE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}