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| Book Says Obama Dressed Down Pentagon Brass |
| 2010-05-06 |
| President Barack Obama reprimanded top Pentagon officials last year for pressing publicly for a troop increase in Afghanistan. That's according to "The Promise," a book on Obama's first year in office by Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter. It goes on sale May 19. The book says Obama laid into Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen in an Oval Office meeting last October. Obama was irked by the leak of a confidential report by Gen. Stanley McChrystal calling for an expanded military presence in Afghanistan, and by McChrystal saying he could not support a strategy relying on special forces and unmanned drone attacks. Obama was conducting a lengthy review of operations in Afghanistan at the time. He largely sided with the generals and agreed to deploy 30,000 more troops. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #7 The book says Obama laid into Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen in an Oval Office meeting last October. With Gates and Mullen on their knees behind him, Barry must have been using shoe store mirrors. Be advised, the beatings will continue unless the ass kissing stops! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-06 20:08 |
| #6 I wonder if he stood real close to them and stuck his index finger into their faces. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-06 19:10 |
| #5 I imagine the president presented it as the military getting involved in politics, as opposed to executing whatever he decided. And they made him look both feckless and indecisive, or rather they put him in a position to demonstrate those qualities. If they didn't expect such a reaction, they hadn't properly thought through the players on the battlefield. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-05-06 16:50 |
| #4 Why did he dress them down? Because they dared to take the spotlight of of the ONE. Narcissistic personality disorder. Obama is mentally ill. |
| Posted by: No I am the other Beldar 2010-05-06 15:11 |
| #3 why did the idiot dress them down if he FINALLY agreed and sent the troops? Because Obama never knowingly misses an opportunity to abuse anyone he suspects of being pro-American? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-05-06 14:33 |
| #2 why did the idiot dress them down if he FINALLY agreed and sent the troops? |
| Posted by: chris 2010-05-06 14:19 |
| #1 "The Promise," a book on Obama's first year in office by Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter. It goes on sale May 19. How much truth, and how much propaganda? I don't think I'll be buying one. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-05-06 12:27 |