{"id":1298,"date":"2009-10-25T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2009-10-25T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:23:23","slug":"further_proof_of_the_afghanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"Further Proof Of the Afghanistan Strategy That Was Handed To President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/024789.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;today posted an article by Scott Johnson.&nbsp; The article&nbsp;lists statements by Kristofer Harrison, who&nbsp;served as the Chief of Staff to the Counselor of the Secretary of State during the Bush administration. &nbsp;Mr. Harrison writes to comment on Paul Mirengoff&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/024772.php\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\">&#8220;No class, bad character&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/10\/cheneys_speech_tonight_1.asp#more\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\">Dick Cheney&#8217;s speech<\/font><\/strong><\/a> this past week, Stephen Hayes&#8217;s Weekly Standard article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/017\/120ekabc.asp\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\">&#8220;Obama&#8217;s minions are ingrates,&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/a> and&nbsp;Scott&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/024782.php\"><strong><font color=\"#4b61a7\">&#8220;No class, bad character: The inside story&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Harrison confirms that both presidential candidates were briefed on Afghanistan&nbsp;before the election.&nbsp; He confirms the fact that the Obama administration asked the Bush administration to keep the findings of their in-depth study of Afghanistan secret.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Harrison points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;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&#8230;only Obama did not resource it with enough troops.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Power Line article points out that in blaming President Bush for not giving him information&nbsp;on the situation in Afghanistan does not&nbsp;affect President Bush&#8211;the stalling in sending more troops does, however, affect the troops on the ground now.&nbsp; This is the kind of political game that the Democrat party played in Viet Nam that caused the unnecessary deaths of many American soldiers.&nbsp; I hope President Obama is not going to do the same thing again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Line&nbsp;today posted an article by Scott Johnson.&nbsp; The article&nbsp;lists statements by Kristofer Harrison, who&nbsp;served as the Chief of Staff to the Counselor of the Secretary of State during the Bush administration. &nbsp;Mr. Harrison writes to comment on Paul Mirengoff&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}