The FactsFormer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders' repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan. "Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as secretary of defense, deserves a response," Rumsfeld said in a written statement. "I am not aware of a single request of that nature between 2001 and 2006."
On Wednesday, Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reaffirmed the longtime White House claim that McKiernan’s requests for more U.S. troops were not met by the Bush administration. “General McKiernan specifically had a fairly substantial request for upwards of 20,000 forces, which we couldn't meet because they just weren't there,” Mullen testified before the Senate Wednesday. “They were in Iraq.” ...Robert P. Finn, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003, told the New York Times in August 2007 that “I said from the get-go that we didn’t have enough money and we didn’t have enough soldiers. I’m saying the same thing six years later.”Donald Rumsfeld, the country's worst Defense Secretary in history, is a Dick Cheney clone who just like Cheney thinks everyone is stupid and not aware of the truth. I guess that can happen when you work for George W. Bush for all those years.
We who know the facts, know better. And you know what? The phony-patriot wingnuts said absolutely nothing when it was happening.
