{"id":1309,"date":"2004-08-27T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/bush-miscalculated-on-iraq\/"},"modified":"2004-08-27T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T16:20:00","slug":"bush-miscalculated-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/bush-miscalculated-on-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"bush miscalculated on iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/27\/politics\/campaign\/27bush.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">Bush Dismisses Idea That Kerry Lied on Vietnam<\/a> [ny times,  august 27, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>Mr. Bush also acknowledged for the first time that he made a &#8220;miscalculation of what the conditions would be&#8221; in postwar Iraq. But he insisted that the 17-month-long insurgency that has upended the administration&#8217;s plans for the country was the unintended by-product of a &#8220;swift victory&#8221; against Saddam Hussein&#8217;s military, which fled and then disappeared into the cities, enabling them to mount a rebellion against the American forces far faster than Mr. Bush and his aides had anticipated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>there seems to be a pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/record_budget_deficit_its_the_nonrecession.html\">miscalculation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/the_bush_administrations_difficulty_with_counting.html\">counting trouble<\/a> with the american executive branch.  it&#8217;s affecting our ability to <a href=\"&lt;a href=\" class=\"broken_link\">plan<\/a> things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Dismisses Idea That Kerry Lied on Vietnam [ny times, august 27, 2004] Mr. Bush also acknowledged for the first time that he made a &#8220;miscalculation of what the conditions would be&#8221; in postwar Iraq. But he insisted that the 17-month-long insurgency that has upended the administration&#8217;s plans for the country was the unintended by-product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}