Sunday, November 30, 2008

THE WINGNUTS PRETEND THEY ARE PRO-MILITARY

and attack Obama for not being so. However, the WaPo finds that the top 3 Pentagon people in charge of our Iraq policy - SECDEF, CJCS and CENTOM - all think Obama's 16 month withdrawal plan is doable.
While some Pentagon officials believe an Iraq withdrawal order could become Obama's equivalent of the Clinton controversy over gays, several senior Defense Department sources said that Gates, Mullen and Gen. David H. Petraeus, head of the military's Central Command, are untroubled by the 16-month plan and feel it can be accomplished with a month or two of wiggle room.

The one flag officer who still has reservations is Odierno and he's the clown who used 155s to respond to mortar fire.

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