Woodward: Obama Not Sending Aircraft Carrier To Persian Gulf ‘A Kind Of Madness’ (VIDEO)

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Bob Woodward, who has been engaged in a fight with the White House over blame for the sequester, on Wednesday called the administration’s decision not to send the aircraft carrier Truman to the Persian Gulf because of looming defense spending cuts a “kind of madness.”

“Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there saying, ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?'” Woodward said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Or George W. Bush saying, ‘You know, I’m not gonna invade Iraq, because I can’t get the aircraft carriers I need?’ Or even Bill Clinton saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters’ — as he did when Clinton was President — because of some budget document? Under the Constitution, the President is Commander in Chief and employs the force. And so we now have the President going out, because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country. That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time.”

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