Posted on 06/28/2011 7:07:04 PM PDT by Qbert
Terrific catch by Stephen Hayes from this afternoon’s Afghanistan testimony by Lt. Gen. John Allen. I can’t help but wonder: Why would the White House lie and claim that Obama’s withdrawal plan was within the range of options presented to him by Petraeus? I thought the next 18 months were going to be all about Obama going with his gut. Wingin’ it, if you will.
His gut told him that he needs to get reelected, and the easiest way to do that was to yank as many troops as possible out of the country no matter what it might mean for the war. That was the only “range of options” that mattered.
So he winged it.
In response to questioning from Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Allen testified that Obama’s decision on the pace and size of Afghanistan withdrawals was “a more aggressive option than that which was presented.”Graham pressed him. “My question is: Was that a option?”
Allen: “It was not.”
Allen’s claim, which came under oath, contradicts the line the White House had been providing reporters over the past week—that Obama simply chose one option among several presented by General David Petraeus. In a conference call last Wednesday, June 22, a reporter asked senior Obama administration officials about those options. “Did General Petraeus specifically endorse this plan, or was it one of the options that General Petraeus gave to the president?”
The senior administration official twice claimed that the Obama decision was within the range of options the military presented to Obama.
Follow the link up top for a full transcript of what that senior administration official said last week. Are Hayes and I missing some nuance in the quotes? It’s one thing if the White House wants to squander the surge in the name of winning next year, but at least own it. Don’t use Petraeus as the fig leaf for a terrible, electorally motivated war “strategy.” Good lord.
Here’s something new from Breitbart TV. You know who I blame for all this? You, America. You need to “up your game.”
Oh no ... say it ain't so. /s
And as to the debate of willing liar vs compulsive...he picks and chooses, usually telling the truth accidentally though.
I’m sure this will be on the front page of the New York Times and Washington Post....and will be the lead story on all the major news networks by tomorrow!
NOT!!
Knowing oblabla and his gang of trolls lied is about as shocking as knowing that NOTHING will happen any time soon.
The law is only for us to follow and them to impose on us. We have too many damn laws and agencies. Time to start over.
Unexpected?
Malignant personality. Probably a bipolar paranoid sociopath.
“I’m sure this will be on the front page of the New York Times and Washington Post....and will be the lead story on all the major news networks by tomorrow!
NOT!!”
Yep- But if a Republican makes a comment about Paul Revere’s ride, or John Quincy Adams being a “founding father” the MSM trips all over itself to report the “news”.
Obama just isn’t very good at it. He gets caught every day in one lie or another.
I take anything coming out of the Obama WH with a grain of salt. Usually I turn anything said by the WH 180 degrees and go with it. Seldom do I find my logic wrong. ;-)
Again today?
Totally unexpected and unprecedented.
I may burn in hell for this, but too bad “suicidal” isn’t part of the description.
But I’d settle for a public crack up.
Why would the White House lie and claim that [Zero]'s withdrawal plan was within the range of options presented to him by Petraeus?That's a rhetorical question, I guess.
“a option”? please tell me it isn’t so.
A commie named Frank Marshall Davis,
thought Marx knew the secret to save us.
So Barack Frank did teach,
how to live like a leach,
and lie and attempt to enslave us.
“Obama just isn’t very good at it. He gets caught every day in one lie or another.”
From what I’ve seen, Obama just isn’t very good at ANYTHING.
Well, speechifying, yeah, Truthing, NO!
The exit plan is nearly an identical operational duplicate of the withdrawal from Vietnam, which has been studied rigorously as an example of how not to plan a campaign.
This man uses the US military as a tool to get re-elected. Because he is ordering the withdraw troops faster than is safely recommended by the generals, our soldiers will die.
He doesn’t care. He doesn’t even remember the names of the heroes who fought and died for this nation.
This man opens the national oil reserve to lower the price of gas just in time for elections.
He opens the treasury to spend a trillion dollars to buy union and government worker support, knowing that they will vote for more.
Obama is perhaps the most corrupt, biggest liar and worse leader in American history.
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