{"id":125,"date":"2006-04-04T10:34:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=125"},"modified":"2006-04-04T10:38:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T17:38:34","slug":"chris-matthews-chowderhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Chris Matthews: Chowderhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Chris Matthews<\/a> interviewed Gen. Anthony Zinni and pressed him on the administration’s planning for post-invasion Iraq.<\/p>\n

Matthews:<\/strong> Who believed there would not be resistance? What fool thought that a third world country would let us march into their country and start calling the shots without resistance? I mean, I am just saying. Who believes that?<\/span><\/p>\n

Zinni:<\/strong> Well, I can tell you, the planners at the Pentagon seemed to adopt these very naive expectations and assumptions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthews:<\/strong> What kind of a chowder head would believe that in the middle of the Arab world we were going to face this magical situation where everybody is going to be giving us flowers, the girls are going to be kissing us, they\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcll be jumping on our tanks, in love with our G.I.\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zinni:<\/strong> Nobody in the Arab world believed it. I talked to all the leaders there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then Matthews really lets himself have it:<\/strong> For about a day or two, I was saluting it. It looked like, it was like a P.R. stunt, the whole country was tearing down statues and loving our guys.<\/span><\/p>\n

There you have it. Matthews is the fool, the chowderhead, that believed the hype – by his own admission. And he is soft-pedalling his seduction by characterizing it as “a day or two.”<\/em> He stumped for this occupation for months, if not years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Chris Matthews interviewed Gen. Anthony Zinni and pressed him on the administration’s planning for post-invasion Iraq. Matthews: Who believed there would not be resistance? What fool thought that a third world country would let us march into their country and start calling the shots without resistance? I mean, I am just saying. Who believes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-21","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":802,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=802","url_meta":{"origin":125,"position":0},"title":"Chris Matthews Plays The Obama\/Osama Card","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/18\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This video is from the first minute of tonight's Hardball. 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