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According to this report, taken from a Roll Call subscription story, House Armed Services Committee ranking member Buck McKeon alleges that Barack Obama has ordered Centcom commander, General David Petraeus, and Afghanistan commander, General Stanley McChrystal, to "scrub" their assessment for more troops, because the President "wasn't inclined to send troops over there."
Well, that certainly gives new meaning to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Here are the key parts of the Roll Call story by Jenifer Bendery and John Stanton.
House Armed Services ranking member Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) said Wednesday that Gates told him on a July trip to Afghanistan that Obama "wasn't inclined to send troops over there."
McKeon said Gates also told him that, in light of Gen. David Petraeus and McChrystal being asked to submit assessments to the president on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, Obama had "given instructions" to them to "scrub everything, to make sure they didn't ask for more than they needed."
That conversation prompted McKeon to ask McChrystal if the directive sent "a chilling message" that the U.S. and NATO commander should ask for less troops than he needed. "He said, ‘No, I'm honor-bound to ask for what I need,'" McKeon said."
Barack Obama has troops in harm's way, fighting the only war he campaigned for a year and a half as saying was the "Good War", and now that he's seeing wavering support in polling and his Democratic anti-war base, he wants to pretend the problem doesn't exist. He is ordering his generals not to inform him, and worse yet, don't even make the request public.
He's Vietnamizing Afghanistan. Take all the fecklessness of Jimmy Carter, the smarminess of Bill Clinton, and now sprinkle in the commander-in-chief ineffectiveness of LBJ, and you have a composite of Barack Obama.
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