General: Obama Afghan withdrawal plan not among options presented by Petraeus

The Daily Caller ^ | 28 June 2011 | Jamie Weinstein

[jda]

President Obama’s troop withdrawal plan was not among the options presented to him by General David Petraeus, according to testimony given under oath by Marine Lt. General John Allen, seemingly contradicting statements made previously by a White House official.

When asked by South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday whether the president’s withdrawal plan was “one of the options presented to the president by General Petraeus,” Allen responded, “It was not.”

But The Weekly Standard points out that in a background conference call with senior administration officials on the president’s withdrawal plan on June 22, a senior administration official said that Obama’s plan “was fully within the range of options that were presented to him and has the full support of his national security team.”

[jda]

Does Obama's withdrawal plan for Afghnistan:

1) Demonstrate the Community Organizer-in-Chief's vast military knowledge and experience which allowed him to see through General Petraeus' shoddy plans and come to America's rescue with his own plan that clearly spells out the definition of victory, defines a workable plan to achieve victory, and details the exit strategy once victory is attained.

or,

2) Appease his leftist base and further deteriorate America's reputation in the world by leaving Afghanistan too quickly and, therefore, at the mercy of the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Surprised we are not

[EagleUSA]

Sounds a lot like Venezuela or Cuba.....

[BuckeyeTexan]

3) Demonstrates Obama’s ignorance and narcissism at the same time.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Allen came out in support of President Obama’s plan to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year and roughly 23,000 more troops by September 2012."

Of course he did!! What else can he do? At least he was honest and telling us what we already knew. That Obama was lying when he said that Petraeus presented this as one option. Allen is a good military man. He's not given enough tools to do the job, but salutes and say's aye aye sir and does more with less.

[paterfamilias]

When he was Commandant of Midshipmen at the US Naval Academy, Lt. General Allen wrote: “Absent integrity, an officer has no moral authority to lead.”

He was, and is, an inspirational leader, and remains a role model for my son and his fellow midshipmen who had the honor to attend the Academy during his tenure as commandant.

I am certain that his testimony is 100% truthful.

Pity I can’t say the same for the “senior administration officials” referenced in the article.

[newzjunkey]

I’m not surprised the “background conference call” was full of BULL. The press shouldn’t be surprised either.