Posted on 09/23/2009 8:59:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
RLINGTON, Va. — By the end of the week, Gen. Stanley McChrystal will submit his request for additional troops and resources in Afghanistan to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Gates intends to sit on the request until the White House national security team completes its review of the general’s strategy assessment, , Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.
Handing that request to President Barack Obama before then would be “simply premature,” said Morrell, who pushed back against what he called “breathless reporting” and “near hysteria” in the media over perceived delays in the assessment’s delivery and the commander’s subsequently expected request for resources.
McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in the country, presented Gates with his assessment of the overall war strategy on Aug. 31.
Pentagon officials had said the assessment would not contain any requests affecting troop levels, and those would come in a separate request.
But in a declassified and partially redacted copy of the assessment, posted on The Washington Post Web site this week, McChrystal indicates his desire for more forces to carry out basic counterinsurgency strategy, which requires offering better protection of populated Afghan areas, among other listed desires.
In Washington, there has been a growing clamor for the release of the McChrystal report and the commander’s resource request — which reportedly could ask for anywhere from 10,000 to 45,000 more troops.
Obama gave a flurry of interviews over the weekend, saying he would take whatever time required to make the right decision — and Gates has also called for a “deep breath” defending Obama’s need for deliberation. But in the past week, an increasing number of lawmakers have demanded the Obama administration allow McChrystal and Central Command leader Gen. David H. Petraeus to speak their minds on Capitol Hill, as Petraeus did earlier in the Iraq war.
“I think it would be useful at some point in time for General McChrystal to share with the Congress, both the Senate and the House, his views and his proposals and his sense of the success that changing strategies would have,” said House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., are also among leading members of Congress calling for a McChrystal appearance before the legislature.
Morrell said the president’s national security team was not delaying any decisions, but that the United Nations General Assembly and the following G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, would occupy much of the team’s attention through this week.
“I am confident that there is a commitment on everyone’s part to work this complex issue as quickly as possible, but without rushing it. It is far more important that we make sure that the strategy we are pursuing is the correct one, and the president and his team are comfortable with it,” said Morrell.“I think there’s this sense — a mistaken sense — that the war is somehow in suspended animation while there is a discussion back here in Washington, and nothing could be further from the truth.”
No Hiding Place.
Can’t Vote Present.
Checkmate.
Game, Set, Match.
“You Are Terminated.”
Obama is doomed.
If Gates was Rumsfeld, and Obama was Bush, the press would be screaming bloody murder from every rooftop in New York and DC. Nope, no media bias whatsoever.
-- General Douglas MacArthur in his Farewell Address to Congress. April 19, 1951
Zer0, Gates, the blood of each serviceman is on your shoulders whilst you ponder your decision!
Whether you want to win the war overseas, or capitulate in the chambers of the US congress is up to you.
Meanwhile, our troops are dying, while Zer0 schedules another trip to the kid’s swing, and his ho’s hoe garden!
Zer0, Gates, the blood of each serviceman is on your shoulders whilst you ponder your decision!
Whether you want to win the war overseas, or capitulate in the chambers of the US congress is up to you.
Meanwhile, our troops are dying, while Zer0 schedules another trip to the kid’s swing, and his ho’s hoe garden!
Should a soldier’s parent curse the bastard who “holds onto” a call for more troops when needed? I think so. It’s absolutely immoral.
He works for those who raised $700 million to get him elected - Islamic world perhaps aka Saudis, Pakistan, Indoneisa.
The U.S. military is being set up to be humiliated. Afghanistan cannot be “won.” These people change allainces by the minute. For thousands of years it has been a tribal warfare hell hole. Martians could learn how to live in a democratic country before these people.
Our troops will be killed and intel by his moles from Hamas and The Muslim Brotherhood in The White Hut could be getting leaked to the Taliban or Al Qeada.
This is a setup to humliate the military. The Russian professor who said the U.S. will break up oddly said Gates might be the person to keep it together.
Eventually the military and The Joint Cheifs may realize they are being punked. Doctors are getting it as they are marching on DC on Oct 1.
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The list, ping
Soldiers are still dying while Obama procrastinates. As someone said, that is immoral.
That 3 A.M. phone is ringing and 0 is screening his calls.
I think it makes a big difference. Obama was/is required by the Goldwater/Nichols Act to publish a National Security Strategy. The NSS is guide for US Military leaders.
Obama has not published anything resembling a National Security Strategy or policy.
Bush published his NSP three during his term.
Military officers and NCO’s study the various CIC’s National Security Strategy.
Nobody seems to know this is law.
Right now, the current CIC has not published one. So a General must sit and wait.
Troops are in harms way, and we await a decision.
We knew what would be asked of us under the previous NSS.
Posted below.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2320.htm
He, Obama, has no coherent policy.
So how many American service personnel will die because of The Failed Democratic Party© indecisiveness? Sounds like LBJ to me...
“This is a setup to humliate the military.”
This is exactly the path Czar Nicholas II went on prior to the Russian military turning against him and overthrowing him. Obozo is making the same fatal error.
They are systematically going through and destroying or taking control of industries or discrediting them.
It appears that the doctors may be rebelling. If they don’t - they will eventually lose everything. They will have a choice of a low paid job with an ACORN boss or no job.
By humiliating the military - it is payback to the Islamic overseers for the humiliation the military inflicted on Saddam’s military and the Taliban early on.
Should McChrystal not get the troops, he and every officer can do so should resign. Those whose re-enlistment is up, should not. Those who thinking about enlisting, should not. Sad, but we have to lose a war to win back the country.
Were my kid was in Afghanistan and got killed while this p.o.s. screws around trying to enhance his poll numbers I’d have to go after his sorry ass and gates.
What garbage this guy is.
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