According to Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-CA, the new top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, Obama told Central Command head Gen. David Petraeus and Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal to "scrub" their assessments because he "wasn't inclined to send troops over there."Look folks. What you want, as President of the United States, is the truth from your warriors. You want to know exactly what they expect. You want to know what they know. You don't want them second guessing what you want to hear. What the President is doing is teaching people to tell him only what he WANTS to hear OR what he wants us to THINK he heard so that he can blame them for his failure (should that happen). Of course, you can't make a good decision if you don't have the facts, so he wouldn't and then he will have a failure... Jeez... ¶ posted by Hobie 8:00 AM
If McKeon's claim is true, Obama's instructions, relayed to McKeon through Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, show how resistant the president is to doubling down on the war in Afghanistan and how Republicans are prepared to take their push for an increased commitment of resources to the public.
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