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To: JohnM who wrote (126511)	12/6/2009 8:33:16 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) of 542658

John; Absolutely fascinating - thanks for posting. It does return some confidence I had in Obama - even as I think this decision will come to haunt him and America. BUT at least it was well thought out and questions were asked. If only that had been done 8 years ago. It also proved to be what one review participant called a “head-snapping” moment of revelation for the military. The president, they suddenly realized, was not simply updating his previous strategy but essentially starting over from scratch. The episode underscored the uneasy relationship between the military and a new president who, aides said, was determined not to be as deferential as he believed his predecessor, George W. Bush, was for years in Iraq. And the military needed to adjust to a less experienced but more skeptical commander in chief. “We’d been chugging along for eight years under an administration that had become very adept at managing war in a certain way,” said another military official. Less experienced? Hmmmm? I think Obama has already passed Bush in that department.

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