Afghanistan, more troops?

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Originally Posted by Jamo

No...instead Obama and his DC folks chose instead to chastize him for talking about his thoughts in public.

For a liberal, he sure does like to screw with the First.

I think you know as well as I do that the military does not have quite the same use of the First that a bunch of angry old farts posting on a forum do.
There were a number of generals who resigned when Bush was in office rather than make their thoughts known. I give a lot of credit to our upper echelon military guys who have had to endure more than their share of bad civilian leadership from both parties (Bush Sr. was the last one worth a damn IMHO). I can understand a general not wanting to risk a court martial and possible loss of pension for speaking out against the CinC, but I personally think we are at a point where it really needs to be done. Obama won the election in large part due to Bush not listening to his generals - we will see if history repeats...

And as an aside, Project Confidence is not going to go over too well with the home crowd who can't think past lunch time today. That should be a fun sell...it's probably a good thing that nobody reads anymore.

Steve