{"id":2190,"date":"2007-05-02T17:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T21:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/four_years_of_p\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T17:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T21:52:19","slug":"four_years_of_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/four_years_of_p\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Years Of Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this segment, Keith Olbermann examines how we got where we&#8217;re at in Iraq:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Nucma0FKKXM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Nucma0FKKXM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18438559\/\">This<\/a> pretty well sums up four years of &#8220;progress&#8221; reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OLBERMANN:  Progress, year after year, in almost mathematically precise increments, never quite enough to justify leaving, always just enough to justify staying, because there is always another milestone to look forward to, a turning point beyond which victory might lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.  For four years we&#8217;ve been on the verge of turning the corner&#8211;except we never actually turn in another direction.  We&#8217;re looping around a giant circle which has taken us nowhere.  It&#8217;s as if our efforts are adrift in Iraq, without a plan or plan.<br \/>\nWait, what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/05\/20070502-2.html\"> that<\/a> you say, Mr. Bush?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And as you know, my position is clear &#8212; I&#8217;m the commander guy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, how reassuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/05\/four_years_of_p\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Four Years Of Progress\"><p>In this segment, Keith Olbermann examines how we got where we&#8217;re at in Iraq: This pretty well sums up four years of &#8220;progress&#8221; reports: OLBERMANN: Progress, year after year, in almost mathematically precise increments, never quite enough to justify leaving, always just enough to justify staying, because there is always another milestone to look forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}