The LAT has been on a streak this week with articles and editorials full of stings to this administration. Here is another one, by Doyle McManus, blaming Cheney's "last throes" comment as one the reasons for his sinking poll numbers.
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Here is one paragraph:
But last month, Vice President Dick Cheney broke from the administration's "message discipline" and declared that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The White House has been paying a price ever since.
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Even Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld distanced himself from the vice president's words. "I didn't use them, and I might not use them," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week. Rumsfeld said the insurgency could conceivably "go on for four, eight, 10, 12, 15 years, whatever…. We don't know. It is going to be a problem for the people of Iraq."
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Bush will try to repair the damage Tuesday evening when he speaks at Ft. Bragg, N.C. Aides say that the president will point to reports that an increasing number of insurgents in Iraq appear to be fighters from other Arab countries, bolstering his argument that Iraq is "a central front in the war on terrorism."
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That last paragraph proves his complete denial of reality. It is 'a central front in the war on terrorism'. Ah, yeah, NOW it is, thanks to you! This new cart-before-the-horse line will not sell. We know what happened, and we know why.