Power Line today posted an article by Scott Johnson.  The article lists statements by Kristofer Harrison, who served as the Chief of Staff to the Counselor of the Secretary of State during the Bush administration.  Mr. Harrison writes to comment on Paul Mirengoff’s post “No class, bad character” on Dick Cheney’s speech this past week, Stephen Hayes’s Weekly Standard article “Obama’s minions are ingrates,” and Scott’s post “No class, bad character: The inside story”.

Mr. Harrison confirms that both presidential candidates were briefed on Afghanistan before the election.  He confirms the fact that the Obama administration asked the Bush administration to keep the findings of their in-depth study of Afghanistan secret. 

Mr. Harrison points out:

“In March, when Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy, I did not notice a single change from the new plan that we had given him…only Obama did not resource it with enough troops.”

The Power Line article points out that in blaming President Bush for not giving him information on the situation in Afghanistan does not affect President Bush–the stalling in sending more troops does, however, affect the troops on the ground now.  This is the kind of political game that the Democrat party played in Viet Nam that caused the unnecessary deaths of many American soldiers.  I hope President Obama is not going to do the same thing again.