I’m not sure why no one brings this up. The president keeps saying that the Democrats are substituting their judgment for that of the generals on the ground. But this is an easily rebutted statement. The entire story here is that the president substituted his judgement for that of the generals on the ground. Remember, they didn’t think the surge was a good idea. So what happened? He fired them. That’s why Gen. Petraeus is there. The president looked around until he could find a general willing to agree with him. And when he did he put him in charge. This isn’t about the ‘generals on the ground’. It’s about President Bush, whose judgment has been catastrophically abysmal from the start. Who can deny that?
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