Woodward comes through for Obama
Now that we’ve had the customary launch of another Bob Woodward book. this one “Obama’s War” we get to sit through months of Bob Woodward rewriting the book in the media to cover all of his liberal friends. In his first explanation, published this morning, Woodward tries to give cover to the Obama Administration, right before the midterm elections, by blaming the military for his long delay and ultimately lightweight decision to send less than half the troops to Afghanistan that the commanders asked.
When his national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2009, for its eighth strategy review session, the president erupted.
“So what’s my option? You have given me one option,” Obama said, directly challenging the military leadership at the table, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, then head of U.S. Central Command.
“We were going to meet here today to talk about three options,” Obama said sternly. “You agreed to go back and work those up.”
Mullen protested. “I think what we’ve tried to do here is present a range of options.”
Obama begged to differ. Two weren’t even close to feasible, they all had acknowledged; the other two were variations on the 40,000.
Silence descended on the room. Finally, Mullen said, “Well, yes, sir.”
Mullen later explained, “I didn’t see any other path.”
See, you can’t really blame the commanders on the ground and the leaders on the President’s staff – they thought Obama wanted to win in Afghanistan. As we can see, his priority was to leave Afghanistan regardless of the outcome. Our commanders are accustomed to some sort of victory…and Obama clearly doesn’t consider that an important option. He’s perfectly happy watching troops die while him and Bite-Me plan a hasty withdrawal.
I’m pretty sure the president and the Taliban have come to an agreement that the Taliban will surrender their arms as soon as the US leaves.
More likely, the final pictures of the US involvement in Afghanistan will be similar to the last photos of the US involvement in South Vietnam.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Media, Terror War
It looks like he wants out without victory but under the cover of being able to say he took the recommendations of the military leadership.
“He” is just playing for a tie, waiting til the timeline runs it’s course, then he can have a presser and claim that he, and he alone, saw the true path, and followed it. Getting out, and waiting for the Taliban to embrace the awesomeness that is Obama.
thats whats know as waffler n chief…just like a lib….no convictions to stand on other that “America is at fault”
Old, Stale MSM/Lib take under BusHitler =
“Listen to your generals, you pretzel-choking warmonger! All you ever did was chase Russian Bombers in clapped out old F-102’s, you dont know a thing about military matters you wingnut!”
New and Fresh MSM/Dem take under Obama =
“Obama is teh Awesum coz he doesnt listen to all the warmonger generals, or something.
He is so cool and edgy and progressive coz he was smart enuff to avoid one day in the military but he totally knows more than any dumb general.”
Let’s not forget the fact that after our King-in-Chief OK’d the extra troops, he thought it would be like setting up a tour group and we could just round up the troops and ship them over. He found out it would take several months for the logistics to be established to supply the extra troops.
This tells me that he doesn’t talk with the Joint Chiefs of Staff much or they would have told him ahead of time how long it would take to actually get the troops there. Remember when General McChrystal said he hadn’t talked with Obama for 10 weeks? Does anyone know how often Obama actually meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff?