{"id":3037,"date":"2007-08-01T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/cheney-admits-his-was-wrong.html"},"modified":"2007-08-01T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T09:42:00","slug":"cheney-admits-his-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/cheney-admits-his-was-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheney admits his was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I doubt this<\/a> will satisfy the left who will stop at nothing to see this man run out of office and spend the rest of his life paying for the war in Iraq:<\/p>\n

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“My estimate at the time — and it was wrong, it turned out to be incorrect — was the fact that we were in the midst of holding three elections in Iraq, elected an interim government, then ratifying a constitution, then electing a permanent government, that they had had significant success, we’d rounded up Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

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“I thought there were a series of these milestones that would in fact undermine the insurgency and make it less than it was at that point. That clearly didn’t happen. I think the insurgency turned out to be more robust.”<\/p>\n

Cheney said it had also been made before al Qaeda in Iraq had stepped up attacks, including the 2006 bombing of a Shi’ite mosque that sparked a wave of sectarian killings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nAnd that I think was the turning point as far as the escalation of the war was concerned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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