{"id":443,"date":"2007-03-05T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2017-06-06T03:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:26:37","slug":"no-us-backup-strategy-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/no-us-backup-strategy-for-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"No U.S. Backup Strategy For Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bush1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bush.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Outside Experts, Not White House, Discuss Options<\/p>\n<p>By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>March 5, 2007<\/p>\n<p>During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn&#8217;t work?<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Marine,&#8221; Pace told them, &#8220;and Marines don&#8217;t talk about failure. They talk about victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pace had a simple way of summarizing the administration&#8217;s position, Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) recalled. &#8220;Plan B was to make Plan A work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/AR2007030401321.html\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside Experts, Not White House, Discuss Options By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post March 5, 2007 During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. 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