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COPENHAGEN (AP) - President Barack Obama summoned his top commander in Afghanistan for a 25-minute meeting aboard Air Force One on Friday as part of his review of a war strategy that has divided the president's national security team.
Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Obama met just before the president returned to Washington from Copenhagen, where he was pitching the International Olympic Committee on Chicago's bid to host the 2016 games.


McChrystal had been in London, where he said in a speech Thursday that insurgents are gaining strength in Afghanistan and more troops are needed to "buy time" for the Afghan military and police forces to prepare to take control of the country in 2013.

A White House spokesman said the meeting was part of the ongoing discussion about Afghanistan and no decisions were made. The pair met in the president's cabin.

"The president wanted to take the opportunity to get together with Gen. McChrystal," spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard the presidential aircraft just before takeoff.

The meeting was the third conversation between the two since McChrystal disclosed in a television interview that aired Sunday that he had spoken with Obama only once since taking over the U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan. Obama tapped McChrystal in May to replace ousted Gen. David McKiernan.

Obama and McChrystal spoke on Wednesday before Obama convened a meeting later that day of his war council, which McChrystal joined by video conference. When Obama learned McChrystal would be in London, he asked him to meet him on the tarmac in Copenhagen after Obama made a last-minute pitch for Chicago's bid, Gibbs said.

Obama's strategy review was prompted in part by a critical assessment of the war effort that McChrystal sent him last month. He declared that the U.S. would fail to meet its objectives of causing irreparable damage to Taliban militants and their al-Qaida allies if the administration did not significantly increase American forces.

While the Pentagon has so far locked away specifics of McChrystal's troop request, he is widely believed to want to add between 30,000 and 40,000 to the current force of 68,000.

Wednesday's war council meeting, the second of at least five planned by Obama, exposed emerging fault lines within the administration over Afghanistan—with military commanders pressing for more troops and other advisers expressing skepticism.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and special Afghan and Pakistan envoy Richard Holbrooke appeared to be leaning toward supporting a troop increase, while White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Gen. James Jones, Obama's national security adviser, appeared to be skeptical of troop increases. Vice President Joe Biden also has been reluctant to support sending more troops, favoring a strategy that directly targets al-Qaida fighters who are believed to be hiding in Pakistan.

The assessment of divisions within Obama's inner circle came from a senior administration official who attended the meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity, because the discussions were private.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both support McChrystal's strategy. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has remained noncommittal.
 

hypocritexposer

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Monday should be interesting. Hopefully Judge Carter will not dismiss this case and it will move to discovery and then trial.

Yet hundreds of letters have been received from throughout the American People, and specifically the American Military, stating that they do in fact have "standing" since the US Constitution is above the Executive and the US Federal Courts must uphold the US Constitution.

The next step will be to order immediate discovery and grant a trial by Jury on the merits.

The discover stage will be very complex since Mr. Obama has now decided by Executive Order to give the Attorney General the Authority to oversee his historical records and therefore give him the means to destroy all documentation Mr. Obama does not want the American People to see. Guess he knows his Executive Order to seal the documents was a stupid move.

We would find ourselves with a Judge Ordering Discovery and an Attorney General not defending and upholding the Law and the Constitution, but rather following his own agenda and destroying documentation.

Could Judge Carter hold the Attorney General in Contempt of Court if one more piece of documentation is altered or destroyed?
 

aplusmnt

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I wonder if he gave up more time than 25 minutes for the Olympics while he was there?

25 minutes for a General in War time!

Obama is all fluff and substance! Even David Letterman got a whole hour! :mad:
 

hypocritexposer

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Krauthammer: "I cannot imagine that if his plan is rejected and if he is given to proceed on a plan now which he said in public, in London cannot succeed, how in good honor he could send his troops into battle with a plan saying and knowing it would fail. I think he would resign and that would be a crisis for the Obama Administration"

Hayes: "I think Charles is exactly right on whether he would resign, I think it is entirely likely that he would not stay and preside over a war that he thinks or knows will fail and I've talked to people who are close to him and worked with him in the past and they say under no circumstances would he stay and preside over a failed war with his troops in the way"...

"We are looking at a crisis of Military/Civilian relations"

http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/krauthammer-believes-general-mcchrystal.html

Here's some comments from back in May when General McChrystal replaced Gen. David D. McKiernan

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced the decision in terse comments at the Pentagon, saying that “fresh eyes were needed” and that “a new approach was probably in our best interest.” When asked if the dismissal ended the general’s military career, Mr. Gates replied, “Probably.”

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Obama agreed with the recommendation from Mr. Gates and Admiral Mullen that “the implementation of a new strategy in Afghanistan called for new military leadership.” The president praised General McKiernan’s leadership, but said it was time for a “change of direction in Afghanistan.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/world/asia/12military.html
 
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