Except where Obama is concerned because--let's face it--who could ever expect a black person to live up to the same standards as a white person?
Still, Obama is only half-black but he can't even measure to half the standard Bush had to.
rug (38,114 posts)
Biden, in leaked memo, told Obama war plan flawed
June 25, 2012
By Anne Gearan
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON—As President Barack Obama considered adding as many as 40,000 U.S. forces to a backsliding war in Afghanistan in 2009, Vice President Joe Biden warned him that the military rationale for doing so was flawed, a new book about Obama's expansion of the conflict says.
The book, "Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan," also says that in planning the drawdown of troops two years later, the White House intentionally sidelined the CIA. Obama purposely did not read a grim CIA assessment of Afghanistan that found little measurable benefit from the 30,000 "surge" forces Obama eventually approved, the book quotes a U.S. official as saying.
A copy of the book by Washington Post correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran was obtained by The Associated Press. It will be released Tuesday.
A previously undisclosed Biden memo to Obama in November 2009 reflects his view that military commanders were asking Obama to take a leap by adding tens of thousands of forces whose role was poorly defined.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2012/06/25/biden_in_leaked_memo_told_obama_war_plan_flawed/
Not so much as a peep out of them about getting Americans killed because a CIA brief was ignored.
August 8, 2001 PDB?
Joe Wilson's Nigerian poolside junket?
LIHOP?
Bueller?
And then there's this...
Beverly Weaver Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team)
Hmmm
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002853109
