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Now if I recall the British the French and the Germans as well as our government's intelligence all thought Iraq has WMD's and in fact he did have the chemical WMD since he used it on his own people. Now I wonder what most of you would have done if you had been the president having that intelligence and knowing that he has ignored every security cancel mandate. I for one would not have ignored it and put my country at risk of a catastrophe 1000 time worse than 9/11, but of course I read where most of you would take that chance.
Now, if you recall, though i read a lot of you don't want to recall, Bush came in office in a down recession economy.
If I also recall the Taliban had been in control of Afganistan and our troops pushed them out unless i was dreaming all that.
Yes, let's not let facts get in our way.

The Afghan war should have been the focus of the previous administration but instead they lied and distracted everyone to the wrong war in Iraq. The Bush/ Cheney liars have caused so much pain and destruction for the US and the world. How can anyone trust them or their cronies?

The man has a point. How can we trust Obama to win a war on terror when he can't win a war against Fox news. News Flash he's a weakling, who's laughed at across the world. Its pretty bad when France has more of a leader than the USA.

I think Rahm has a serious point, actually. Bush's Afghani strategy was just awful.

This is old. President Obama has a responsibility as commander in chief to the troops and American people. Stop playing politics with our men and boys in Afghanistan and listen to your generals. Anything less than what Gen. Stanley McChrystal has requested is pure politics and shows the true weakness of this administration.

OK CNN, why don't you do some investigating and tell us who's lying here? I'm so tired of you just quoting two sides and the reader being left to wonder who's telling the truth. Bush guys are usually the ones who lie or mislead but it would be nice if you, the journalists, actually did some fact finding instead of just transmitting partisan sniping. If Gillespie is lying call him out, if Emanuel is lying tell us that too.

This is the whiniest administration , Obama's, in history. Always blaming everyone but themselves for not being what they said they be when the hoodwinked America into voting them in.

Rham Emanuel is the most DANGEROUS person in and BIGGEST threat to The United States of America. We'll see what kind of a President Mr. Obama is when he either gets rid of this guy or stays with him.

What Bush did was bad, that's why the GOP got voted out. But I am sick of the whining from the new administration. We vote for you to fix it, not to whine. And the DEM need to clean up their houses as well. When the Chairman of the Senate Taxing committee evading tax and the Chairman of the Senate banking committee got a special mortgage loan of 1.5% and said he thought that's a normal rate, we are the people of the US are in trouble.

I agree – stop the blame game, can't the current administration take responsibility for anything? And no, none of the current Admin can be trusted – every single person has been a disappointment so far!

By the way, I wish people would stop saying no WMD's were found in Iraq – PLEASE go back and read the newspapers from this time – Plutonium – and lots of it – was indeed found! (Among other things).

Rahm is a political machine, smart and shrewed but he lies, he lies to the american people, he will say and do anything to meet his political objectives. He's really not a nice person either. He's kinda sad and in some ways I feel sorry for him. For the good of the country we need to defeat Rahm, Obama and Pelosi at the voting booth.

The following is a statement by Retired General Paul Eaton as written on the Huffington Post 10-22-2009:

The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.

The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes.

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Who should we believe...the American hero General Eaton, or the Bush administration??? You decide.

Here's a simple answer to your question: The Obama administration, and most Americans, will stop blaming Bush's administration when all our troops are back home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bush left Afghanistan and let it drift while he pursued an illegal war in Iraq because of his own agenda which made absolutely no sense. What an absolute moron. I will NEVER understand how he got reelected.

I think that Obama should hold more meetings on the war. After all it is the "just war". Meanwhile more troops are being killed and injured. Time to fish or cut bait and stop reading polls. Even John Stewart and SNL have caught on to this act. "All hat and no cattle" as the saying goes.

CHANGE=Blame Bush for everything while still campaigning for programs that nobody wants accept for the freeloaders and socialists. This White House has done nothing to improve the economy, jobs or the war on terror. Hopey Dopey has proven to be the empty suit most thinking Americians thought he was.

Raum Emmanuel is not an elected leader and therefore I do not want to hear him speak for the White House on the previous administration and their decisions in Afhganistan. I am a three tour veteran and understand the decisions that President Obama needs to make concerning strategy as he has taken the leadership responsibility...but I do not want to hear his Chief of Staff, i.e. executive secratary act like he has the role of the president of anyone else on the NSC.

The Bush gang fumbled Iraq and they fumbled Afghanistan. Both countries needed a Marshall Plan, and neither got it. Just putting in troops does not work, but that's all Bush, Cheney and the rest did.

It's been too many years now, and too many local opinions have hardened against us. Iraq and Afghanistan are lost, and were lost well before Obama took office. Leaving troops in either only forstalls the inevitable power struggles between factions.

Thanks to W. and the neo-cons, the big winner in Iraq is Iran. Thanks to Bush and the neo-cons, the Taliban is resurgent and no group we support is respected.

The wars were lost, fumbled, bumbled, and ultimately, like Viet Nam, will prove a waste of American lives that meant nothing.

of course people don't expect Mr. Bush to accept responibility for anything, as he said he didn't make any mistakes, but I just don't understand how we can clean up 8 yrs. in 8 mons. but at least he's trying

Has anyone else noticed that Rahm Emanuel looks a lot like Joseph Goebbels? But that's beside the point. If the Obama administration wants to wait with decision making until there is a stable government in Afghanistan, then they may as well bring all the troops home now and call it quits. No matter how the runoff election goes, there will not be a stable government in Afghanistan for years to come. The White House is just looking for an excuse to say goodbye to Afghanistan. For the Obama administration defeat in Afghanistan is a self fulfilling prophecy. Heck, with John Kerry doing the quarterbacking how could we possibly win?

8 years of having war as the only solution should say enough!

I will be so glad when people starts TRUSTING GOD more instead of looking to our President like he have all the answers WELL people he dont and he never will So stop blaming G. Bush and this Administration and let the pass be the pass and start looking forward We have a GREAt GOD thats sits high and look low and Yes he sees everything and hears everything even when we complain instead of TRUSTING AND PRAYING and looking to him for answers. You may not have voted for President Obama but you are obligated to PRAY for him especially if you are a Christian. I 4 one believe that President Obama is capable of getting the job done but WITH THE HELP OF THE LORD!

Emmanuel is a liar and the WH is playing blame politics. Secretary of Defense was appointed in 2006 and remains Secretary today. Is Emmanual saying he and the President have never spoken to Gates?

The members of the former administration need to keep their noses out of current events. They have no power, yet seem only interested in their place in the history books. The last thing that these people think about is the welfare of the United States. This is the last thing on the minds of these incredibly selfish people. Fortunately, due to the amazing wisdom of our founding fathers, our republic still exists, in spite of 8 years of GW Bush. Let our new president do his job the way he sees fit. The people of the Bush Administration need to fade into the woodwork.

again, what else would we expect from the party of no. it's just more of the same old, same old garbage.

The Bush Administration and the Truth does not mix.it's like Dick Chains-ney respecting the Commander in Chief it's not Happening

The Bush Administration and the Truth does not mix.it's like Dick Chains-ney respecting the Commander in Chief

Rahm is completely correct. When Bush decided to invade Iraq, Afghanistan was left completely adrift. There can be no argument about that. For Ed Gillespie to say otherwise is a LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any member of the Bush Administration has no right to critizine ANYONE. Because of their lack of competance, we are in this mess today. So Cheney and this guy should just keep their mouths shut.

Ed Gillespie and Dick Cheney should sit down and shut up. They brought the curse of 100,000 dead Babylonians upon us, They had 8 years and they muffed it up. Big O has barely had 8 months. GOP has zero credibility. GOP = LIE

This guy we call president at the moment doesn't have the courage to do anything on his own. I'm surprised he can decide where to have lunch without somebody telling him. He is the most useless and most dangerous president this country has ever had. I don't know of one thing he hasn't lied about since he has been in office.

But this decision on the war is not one he can slide off to someone else so eventually he has to make a decision. It takes so long because it is the decision of any substance that he has to make.

Other decisions this guy has made are destroying our economy and our country. God help us as we'll really need it before this guy is out.

I'm sick of this war. You want us to train the Afghanistan army so that they can fight the Taliban. But all we are doing is training their army, (both the one in Afghanistan and Iraq0 our military techniques and in the end the only thing they are both going to do is use our military training to rise up against us. You don't see any other countries going into the middle east and training those people how to fignt. When will we recognize that these people do not want a democracy and they in particular don't want to live like us. They don't like us. Everything that we believe in are things they hate. We need to take care of home first and quit wasting money on a dead horse. We can't steal their oil, those people are not as stupid as the Bush administration thought they were. The Repukes only wants Obama to continue this war because war is money. And they are making a lot of money off of this war. You don't see China trying to teach another country's military how to fight. We taught the Chineese people how to use free trade with us and now they have all of the market and money and we don't have toot.

"Emanuel, knows full well,,I suspect" What kind of double speak is that coming from the failed Bush administration. either you Know or you suspect. make up your mind.
After Secretary Gates released the 65 page report, he went on the sunday morning talks shows, and said I quote, The policy in Afghanistan was to fight a holding pattern." Yes the Bush administration policy was not to win but to waste $$$ time and lives. Thank GOD, the Obama administration has called for an reevaluation of the mission. Lastly Obama has more than doubles troop levels there on his orders, so any comment from the peanut galley that he is not committed, is pure fantasy.

Bush all the time in the world to take out the bad guys. We had the backing of every nation on Earth but Bush preferred to divert his focus and point his compass on Iraq. This was the end of all well natured meaning and the start of an unrising that has now left us in limbo.

What were they thinking? WMD in Iraq, Oil and of course; the huge war machine; Afghanistan was not providing the amount needed to spend and waste tax payers money.

Where is Osama? Why his he not captured after eight years and trillions spent. Osama must be laughing all the way to the bank for having set in motion the waste and mismanagement of a misguided political movement.

Give it up Libs....give it up already. Bush is out, his administration is out, start taking responsibility and stop blaming those who came before you. Oh, wait, you can't take responsibility can you, you can't be held accountable, that's so un-democratic, it's so much easier to blame. I'm so tired of your crap, can't wait until the mid terms and some of you can be turned back.

You cant believe anything a Repub says. Start with Nixon and work down. They all lie. Repubs dont love America, Only Money "STRAIGHT DEM TICKET" is the way to get us out of the hole.

When is Obama going to grow up and actually take responsiblity on anythng???? Obama is an arrogant dirty politician that is in way over his head and everyone including Democrats now know this. Rahm is probably one of the dirtiest Cheif of Staff in 50yrs plus and everyone around Obama is from the same Chicago style politics. Gw was a honest God-fearing good american that did make mistakes but made them while everyone still knew he made them while he loved this country and was trying to do the best thing for America even if it wasnt a popular decision at the time, you can not say the same thing for Obama. Obama truly is a small small man.

It is very clear that this administration feels more comfortable on the campaign trail than actually doing any good work. That is why they spend so much effort attacking the media, the corporations that make a profit, and the US Chamber of Commerce. Some one should tell them they won the election and get off the campaign trail and get down to business.

everyone may have made fun of Dubya when he said he was "the decider," but at least when it came time to make a decision, he could make one. I'd rather have someone whose syntax was a little goofy but knew how to make a decision than someone who talks pretty, but can't actually make a decision.

What Gillespie never explains is why none of the things Emanuel addressed like an Afghani Army, an Afghani Security Force, and Afghani services were addressed over the previous 7 years. Maybe if they had paid attention to Afghanistan for the previous 7 years, a last ditch review and proposal before leaving office wouldn't have been necessary to cover their collective political backsides.

Now now! We all know only the Democrats and The supreme Obama can criticize. Funny, for 8 years Bush was in office the Dems cried and whined daily, now if you say a single thing negative about Obama the whiners cry even louder and as the hypocrites they are will say crap such as, "we should stop pointing fingers..". Maybe you people should practice what you preach.....

has this guy been living in a cave for the last eight years

Boy, Karen, if I could tell whether to trust people or not by their eyes, I could rule the world. And so could you–which you would obviously love to do. But I can't and you can't (thank God) so let's limp along by judging people by what they do, rather than by "the look in their eye."

PS Have you looked at Cheney's eyes real closely lately?

I believe nothing that Emanuel says. Its all back room Chicago politics to him. Gillespie is right on!

obamahs holding out so he won't have to make any wromg moves that will ruin a chance for dem goveners to be elected ....wake up people

I find it so so funny that the Bush administration tried to blame 9/11 on the Clinton's after being in power 9 months.Can we please play the game by some timeline rules?The Republicans have shown the most incompetent war time strategy of any Presidency EVER.We have been at war longer than WW1 & WW2 combined.The only thing that they ever got right was all the graft and corruption.The "Surge"needs to be be renamed into the "Bribe".We could go on and on.The bottom line is we need to give President O'bama the same patience we showed the former president!!!

Mr. Obama needs to set aside now and allow a bipartisan group with GOP leadership take control of the government. Mr. Obama has shown that he is grossly incompetant and does not have the best interst of the American people at heart. Mr. Obama's lies and deception are so wide spread now that not even CNN can cover them up.

Republicans = self-absorbed cry babies misleading american people to protect their and their budd's individual wealth. Just think how much under Bush and the Repub's the 1% of the top 1% got richer while the rest of us (including upper middle class got poorer. )

The people at Haliburton aren't complaining...well I take that back...Cheney is. Sadly, most of the country is too stupid or racist to figure out that Obama actually has really helped the country in a remarkably short period of time. Think of the disaster that McCain and Palin would have been.

People, figure this out before it all goes to the corporations

Rahm Emanuel- straight out of Chicago politics. Would you trust him?
I don't.

Typical Obambi and liberals, when succeed they said it's theirs. When failed, blame it on others. America will be gone because of these cowards (never want to take responsibility) and hypocrites.

This administration's continued and constant attempts to blame the previous administration for everything is getting very, very tiresome. Even those who once had so much confidence in this president are questioning the continued attempts to blame and not take responsibility. Enough is enough and this kind of behavior makes this administration look weak, uninformed, and lacking in true leadership capabilities. Just because the accolades are diminshing is no reason to play the blame game, a game that the people just aren't buying into any longer.

Afghanistan will take between 20 and 30 to complete it is very different than Iraq, we are there for two main reasons keep the terrorists from having a base and draw them to our military and kill them before they come here and attack our civilians, that is why we need more men, the more people we have the safer on our troops. Everything will work if they let it.

Blame it on Bush. Everything that is going wrong in the BHO administration is GWB's fault. It is like a broken record. No one has to remind us of GWB's failed presidency. GWB is no longer in office. Get over it. Start doing something. Make a decision. Stop the blame game.

Obama should take as long as he needs to do the right thing......we are tired of the last 8 years of SHOOTING FOR THE HIP with out thinking of the repercussions........Bush started this WAR and then turned his BACK on it to invade Iraq and left the men and women in Afganistan like second hand hand-me-downs.........so shut up Republifcans and let this administration do their job, they certaining can't and won't do as poorly as the Bush/Chaney administration did

The Bush policies will very likely result in two failed wars. The current administration inherited a situation so bad economically, militarily, and diplomatically that it would take a miracle to get us out of this hole in four years. Bush and Cheney would like to claim they succeeded in Iraq, but their policies might still result in an Iraq civil war.

And still the Bush administration will not take responsibility for a badly managed war. Emanuel is just stating the obvious.

Wait, why are we questioning the Obama Administration? The President just needs more time to mull things over. Everything's okay. Despite the fact that our our troops in the field remain stretched too thin, Obama needs time to think, talk with GLAAD, and continue to isolate his commander in the field. Don't worry about making the important decisions required of a Commander-in-Chief. Just read the teleprompter, blame others for the situation and avoid making a concrete decision. I'm sorry if that sounds critical of Obama...I know we are only supposed to chant "yes, we can", drink the Kool-Aid, and silently wonder why our lives aren't improving as the nation moves towards bankruptcy.

As far I'm concened, nobody in the previous administration ever made any sense. We should now listen to this guy? I don't think so.

As as I'm concened, nobody in the previous administration ever made any sense. We should now listen to this guy? I don't think so.

I just wish that one time. JUST ONE TIME that ANYONE in the obama administration would act like a leader. How about you obama? You continually prove you do not have what it takes to lead anything.

Iraq is now going down hill and Obama's insecurity on Afghanistan won't improve things there either. Finish it then get out!

Somebody better buy this guy some windex and a ball-glove and make it fast. He is living in a glass house and he is starting to throw stones. When it comes to honesty the Bush folks make Obama look like Abe Lincoln.

So again, per Obama's strategy....let's ignore the Generals suggestions and let our American troops die to help his Political agenda ! PLEASE, this guy is trouble

1998 1998 1998 1998 1998

"We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." – President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." – Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D,CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U. S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." – Letter to President Clinton signed by Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998.

1998 1998 1998 -- 3 years BEFORE Bush's inauguration.

The Senate vote to approve the Iraqi War Resolution was 77 – 23. It was approved by 29 Democrats, including John Kerry, Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Jay Rockefeller, and Diane Feinstein.

George Bush did not lie. He was double – crossed.

Face it. It is a Bush war!

a proposal given and a review given that is half hearted and seeks only to answer what you want it to answer is not a study, its a justification

Mr. Gillespie, like Cheney is trying to justify what every one knows was poorly executed

Bush / Cheney were failures and left a huge mess to clean up

Perhaps the thousands of Afghans residing in the the U.S.A. ought to be asked to submit their thoughts on what might be the most effective and efficient ways to aid their country's advance in democracy and safety. They might have better ideas than some of the American military leaders. After all, they know and love their country in ways we never could. If each cluster of Afghans living in the U.S.A. was invited to send a representative to a conference in Washington, D.C., to meet with our President and some of his confreres, I believe much good would come of that.

Bush and Cheney did not have any policy on Afghanistan or Iraq. They don't have any credibility. I don't think they were able to formulate a policy because the Bush and Cheney are not bright enough for the complicated decisions needed to weight all the issues in making a policy. They only had a policy of talking to commanders on the ground and send them more troops and act tough by making tough talk like "bring it on" and "mission accomplished" without thinking deep to figure out what's in our best interest with all the circumstances at hand. Talking tough does not make you tough. Smart decisions using all available means to win the wars makes you tough.
Cheney being a failure should actually keep his mouth shut instead of putting our nation more in danger by his deranged mind. This man still thinks he is running the country and thinks that he is ordering Bush instead of Obama. He is so mentally screwed up that he believes that he is still in control of this nation and military.

Here we go again. The Obama administration blames everyone else but themselves. When Bush took over he did not blame Clinton for the recession in 2000 nor did he blame Clinton for 9/11.

Obama is so inexperienced that this is all he can do, deflect, deny, disorient the American public.

He needs to make three honest decisions:
1. Give the generals what they need
2. Stop taking away our rights with this phony Health Care reform
3. Stop lying about Global warming

You must be a republican, typical reasoning. I make the mess and expect someone else to clean it up . Oh and I need never be reminded of the complete and total mess that I made. I wish that the last administration, and yes, I mean BUSH, had been a little more hesitant about rushing us into not 1,but 2 wars. And are you serious. look at his eyes? Bush looked in someone's eyes and saw their soul......... really?

More lies from the Bush administration.

I am pretty sure that Rham doesn't even know where Afghanistan is on the map. I wonder why they requested the Bush adm not to reveal what their review yielded.

My fellow Americans, this is what we get when we elect someone on their looks and their popularity. It is obvious to me that Mr. Obama does not have a clue what he is doing.

Who suffers??? OUR TROOPS that are fighting for our FREEDOM. Wake up America!!!!

Obama and his administration have to have someone to blame for their misguided leadership and they must LIE like Obama to keep devieving the American people so thay can keep their smoke scvreen up. Obama and his administtration are so inept at what they do that they jeprodize the security of this nation and the safety of the people.

IMPEACH OBAMA and FIRE EMANUEL, they are terroist sypathizers

I would much rather have a President who carefully weighs all sides of an issue before arriving at a decision than one who leaps into a war with little or no forethought. Iraq had little or nothing to do with the 9/ll attacks, but Bush/Cheney wanted to fight Saddam, so they did ~ regardless of the facts. My personal belief is that escalating the war in Afghanistan will be counterproductive, while escalating the development (or re-development) of Afghanistan's infrastructure will be beneficial to both Afghans and Americans. Defensive support for infrastructure projects certainly will be needed, as will defense of the major population centers until the Afghan army can assume that responsibility will be necessary, I expect; but I hope that the local army soon will be able to take that on.

As an officer in the US Army, My boyfriend had been going back and forth to Afghanistan for 8 years. He knows EXACTLY what is going on in that country. Bush knew...and Obama knows. Rahm Emanuel is a liar. There is no surprise here. Nothing...and I repeat NOTHING has changed other than we have made headway with the people of Afghanistan. What talks there is power and money. When you have a President who bases his decisions on POLITICS rather than what his generals are telling him the enemy instantly smells blood. Our troops are target practice while Mr. Indecision makes up his mind whether to win the war or make the far-left happy.

I have NEVER seen anything more irresponsible in my life. Rahm Emanuel should be thrown out on his ear.

When you see Rahm Emanuel on TV, do you come away with a warm, fuzzy feeling that he's a good guy, or do you get that feeling that he's constantly deceiving people while reaming them behind the scenes. To me, he comes across as the type of person who would read you the riot act and then pull the rug from under you when you least expect it while on one of his many daily power trips. He just doesn't convey "trust" in any sense of the word. If I were to guess, I'd bet the majority of people under him either despise him or are deeply afraid of him...

Karen..when people look in your eyes, can they trust you? That was not the brightest remark. He is understandably hesitant and not gungho like our last president. Yes hes been in for 9 months, as another person posted. But we forget it took almost 8 years to get to the mess we are at- both domestically and on foreign soil. Give the man at least a year and a half to unravel some of it. Many of you are asking for the impossible.

It's arguable that the war in Afghanistan could have been wound up when U.S. troops had Osama bin Laden and his minions bottled up in and around Tora Bora–had the Bush administration and General Tommy Franks been willing to commit the resources and risk the probable casualties necessary to finish the job. Neither the White House nor the general had the guts to make that commitment, so anything that party hack Ed Gillespie has to say is irrelevant and immaterial, if not a whitewashing rewrite of history.

Look at your eyes you certainly broke your trust with 8 years of running the country in the ditch.
Try looking at yourself in the mirror you wont see anything but a big empty blob.

CNN this is not news by any measure .

The Obama administration is making mistake after mistake on its media coverage. They want to distort the truth and make everything out to be the previous administrations fault. I am getting weary of this president and believe I made the wrong choice when I voted for him. I did not like McCain/Palin at all but this is a nightmare.

I'd like to move past the blame game and focus on the present situation: Extremist groups such as the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah all present a severe threat to US security-world security! Obama is being perceived as weak and indecisive and this is not a good thing. Certainly I never was comfortable with the way that Bush handled the situation, but I fear that the present pullout in Iraq will create an enormous problem for the Iraqi people and for the US eventually if (as it seems) Iran and other radical groups gain control there. I'd like to see a strong military response in Afghanistan and continued US presence in Iraq until things have stabilized there.

"Gillepsie told King that the Bush administration conducted its own thorough review of the Afghanistan war but did not disclose it publicly at the request of the incoming Obama administration."

When, in the course of SEVEN YEARS did they do the Bush administration do this "thorough review," and what had they been doing for all of the time BEFORE that??
With six or more years "in country," it's difficult to listen to ANYONE who could have done something sooner and didn't when they complain about this President's process.

Spin it how you like, President bush had PLENTY of time and similar advice to implement a WINNING strategy, but didn't... Why aren't you "Right" wingers crying about what the last administration failed on?

The fact is that for 7 years the Bush administration had less soldiers in Afghanistan than New York City has police officers. They established no infrastructure, military or police. In effect, they threw 20,000 soldiers there to stop a total collapse, nothing else. In fact, herion production sky rocketed under their watch. The whole thing was a Fiacso of Bush and GOP incompetence.

I seem to remember in March when Obama spoke of his new campaign for the Afgan war, that was over 6 months ago and now the are saying they need to make a new strtegy? Wasn't his appt of McCrystal to win this war back then. We,, 2 months after the top commander makes his request Obama is still thinking it over? Why is that? He said he had a" comprihensive plan "6 months ago but when it doesnt work just blame someone else. The more you put the blame on other people the more you loose the confidence of the people. Say what you want guys but he is the President and he is responsible now, quit deflecting this.

What we need are LEADERS and not people who are more concerned about the next election rather than the next generation. Every administration makes mistakes, OK. It is time to move on and focus, focus on what needs to be done without pointing fingers. The American people do not care what side of the isle people sit, they care about what is being done to fix the problems. Clearly, pointing fingers, regardless of what party a person belongs to, isn't fixing anything. To the so-called leaders of both parties and in both the Senate and the House (as well as the Executive Office), shut up with the blame game and fix our problems.

Its now been two months that Gen. McCrystal's request for more troops has been sitting on Obama's desk. The president needs to man up, act like a leader, and make a decision. Its reckless to leave men there without the resources they need to get the job done. Either pull or give them more troops. Obama is too much of a coward to upset his cronies on the left, so he has done nothing. Its high time for his administration to stop blaming Bush and start assuming a little responsibility for their mismanagment of Obama's war.

I'm as tired of hearing from Rahm Emmanual and Timothy Gibbs as I am of hearing "we won" and "the previous administration". During the campaign, candidate Obama had all the answers to what was wrong with our country. He was elected and also given the majority in Congress. It's time to act, now, and stop the blame game.

Not only is Rham wilfully misleading, he is and always has been uninformed and now has the support of the administration led media to parrot his comments. CNN MSNBC CBS NBC ABC NPR style journalism is dead.

All the Bush apologists need to get real.. It took 8 years for the country to get into the shape it's in.. There was/is a laundry list of mistakes, lies, miscalculations, disinformation and misleading statements made during that time. We are seeing the result of all that now with the tanked economy and an unnecessary war going on while the real focus should never have left Afghanistan. And because of the mistakes made by the last administration we/re in a total mess throughout the middle East. How can anyone reasonably expect that President Obama can clean up that mess in a year or even 2 or 3.

Let's get this straight once and or all. We began a war in Afghanistan to end the Taliban and Al Qaeda. We took our eye off the ball seven years ago and became involved in Iraq which had NOTHING to do with our original goal. Iraq was not involved in 9/11. Iraq had NO WMDs. Al Qaeda was not aligned with Saddam Hussein. Bush Jr. wanted to avenge his papa's attempted assassination and paid for it with over 4,000 American lives. Gillespie cannot deny any of this. So where is Rahm Emmanuel wrong? NOWHERE! Why do the Bushies feel they must defend themselves if they did everything right?

Who would listen to a former Bush aide? Why is he even given a platform to speak by the news – he is non-relevant to anything going on – where is the fact checking in what he said?

Can we say denial, denial, denial?? The Bush administration seems to think that they did absolutely nothing wrong with their handling of the situation in Afghanistan. Funny how most everyone else seems to disagree with them.

And Paul ... they all blame the previous President ... Obama blames Bush 2 ... Bush 2 blamed Clinton ... Clinton blamed Bush 1, Bush 1/Reagan blamed Carter ... Carter blamed Ford, etc ..., etc ... etc ..

I have a question for Ed Gillespie that John King should have asked. When did President Obama ask them to keep their review secret , when he was a State Senator in Illinois? The Bush administration should face treason charges.

Ed Gillespie is trying to smooth over his dirty secret. And it is not the Bush Adminsitration's review of the situation before Obama came into Office. It is its utter failure to create a stable government in Afganistan after We got rid of Al qaeda and Taliban. We should have stayed there like we did in germany and japan and Italy and Austria and even Iraq. But Chaney-Rumsfeld combo left the job half finished. Yes. Ed, the reason taliban came back because your boss, with his egomania friends and defenders like you decided to rush in to Iraq leaving Afganistan in shambles. So shut up and stop blaming Obama team for exposing your dirty linens.

What I don't like is Cheney weighing in about Obama 'dithering'. Cheney got 5 deferments from the Viet Nam war, yet he has no problem sending our troops in harms way. Maybe if he or George Bush had immediate family in the service (or sons that had to sign up for Selective Service) they wouldn't be thumping their chests and so eager to get our troops into Iraq when Afghanistan was finished (ggod job on capturing Osama bin Laden, Cheney). Let the Obama administration do a real, thorough assessment of EVERYTHING that exists over there and EVERYTHING that we can possibly do WITH our military and civilian partners around the globe. Our military is spread thin and very, very tired. Cheney – and by proxie, Bush – is all about big talk that is far away from the hostilities with no comprehensive long term vision that will ultimately effect everyone for generations. What Bush couldn't do in 7 years cannot be done by Obama in 9 months.

Gillespie is being very polite. What he should say is that Emanuel is a party hack and unapologetic liar! Regardless, since January the responsibility of this war and this country is that of the current administration so stop the blame game and do something productive, Rahm!

How in the Bloody hell did Dead Fish Emanual become an expert on military affairs.. Our servicemen and woman deserve more than this man giving his voice to Obama and they deserve more than Obama giving credeance to his advice.. This lousy excuse for a breathing entity is lower than a sewer Rat... Obama will soon have to come to the realization that he need sto dump Axelrod and Emanual and gain the confidence of the American people.. The more these sleaze bags offer their openions on TV the more the people will recognize just what low life scum they are...

Enough with the wall-to-wall latino coverage, CNN!! We get it that state run media is complicit with Obama and the Dem campaign to give amnesty to several tens of millions of ILLEGALS, and thus trying to buy decades of Power. We see your blood lust at the expense of the entire country....

When is Obama going to start leading and end his campaign? Quit blaming and making excuses. You wanted the job. You won. So get over it, and get on with it!

Obama administration is so far over their head. These guys are losers from the get go. The phone is ringing at 2:00 AM and Obama is asleep.

This misinformation by Mr. Emanuel is surprising how? I had yet to hear an honest assessment of anything by this administration.

If Obama/Rahm Emanuel are so disgusted w/ how Bush handled Afghanistan, then why did they retain Robert Gates as Defense Secretary?

Gates never set Bush straight, so by keeping him they (Obama/Emanuel) are no smarter than our 'ol pal G.W. Bush.

Stop blaming Bush & do SOMETHING, Obama...

Total CYA, It's not what reports you had after being there longer than WWII, it's the fact that you left a skeleton force there to go invade Iraq. You didn't have the troops or a plan to win in Afganistan or you would have used them.

There exists no intelligent method for Bush/Cheney loyalists to spin the proven fact that the Republicans blatantly lied to invade Iraq and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. The members of the former administration are liars and murderers plain and simple. History will remember Bush/Cheney and all those who voted for their 'values' as such.

Gee, Mr. Gillespie, I guess I missed the news cycle where the Bush administration captured Osama bin Laden before dashing off to invade a country that never attacked us. And a darn good thing that Bush left President Obama a memo about his abysmal failure in Afghanistan before hitting the "motivation seminar" trail.

Honestly, I perceive no validity to criticism of the Obama administration from those involved in the miserable failure of the previous Bush administration. In fact, one could truly argue that if someone from the Bush disaster thinks you are doing a bad job, you must be doing something right...

Another liar. we all know that george w. bush failed at every thing he tried to do. also he lied to the whole country for 8 years. and lied to the people of texas for 7 years before that. remember when bush stood up in front of the whole world and said he had never made a mistake. ed gillespie is not a person that i would trust me to tell the truth about any thing.

I don't know what the answer to these wars is, but you can't just pick up and move. For all of you who wanted change, did you expect utopia the day after the election? This country was put in a serious mess and no matter what President Obama does, he will be pilloried. We need to wind down these wars and return these countries to their citizens. There must be a way for the United States to protect itself without occupying a foreign land. I know what the military experts want to do, but they can't think any other way, so we remain stuck in the mess Bush started. I would suggest that all Republicans refrain from giving the president any advice at all since you sat around and let Bush start these messes, including the bank bailouts that Bush put into motion.

When will the American people get tired of the constant squabbling? Nothing gets done, and more people die while these children point fingers at eachother. Who is worse....the cop.....or the fireman...who refuses to save a life? For 8 years, the left condemned every move the Bush administration made. They fought the surge in Iraq....declared the war lost......protested ANY escalation into the theater...and now, they have the nerve to say that he didn't do anything.................while they sit there and do NOTHING? Look, I'm no fan of Bush......but, you've GOT to see the hypocracy in both of these administrations.

The Cheney/Bush administration basically dropped the ball so that Sonny boy could clean up Daddy's mess in Iraq and get Mommy's love! Let's face it, the foul up in Afghanistan is the result of the absolutely incredibly stupid idiocy of the previous administration to finish the job in the country that really was responsible for 9-11 to instead "complete the job" that Bush senior had supposedly failed to conclude (against a country that had NOT attacked us). Emmanuel is not "uninformed or willfully misleading". It's Cheney/Bush screwed up and they're now going after the people trying to clean up the incredible mess that the Republicans have made of the situation. May God help President Obama to clean up the mess Cheney/Bush left for them!!!

Will these incompetent amateurs EVER stop blaming Bush. If you can fix it, then fix it. If not resign and let someone else try. Obozo has had 9 months to decide on a strategy, and all he's done is make things worse. Since he took office US deaths have skyrocketed, and the situation has gotten worse.

The only time the present administration takes credit for anything is when it looks good for Obama. What a bunch of loosers.

Mr. Gillespie said the Bush Administration had come up with a plan for Afghanistan before it left office. Is he for real? Time for plans was in 2001 not in 2008! Emanuel was right that Bush Admin didn't achieve much in Afghanistan and Obama now has to pick up the pieces. They had 7 years to conduct the war and the best they can say is that they had a plan. It's pathetic.

Since Emmanuel is also the man conducting the campaign against FOX and the conservative radio commentators he is obviously a lying dog in a whole pound full of lying dogs. Transparency, none. Veto of pork, none. Bipartisan approach, none. No lobbyists in the administration, lots and lots. All of these were Obama campaign promises, none have been kept. Obama lies and continues to lie.

AAh! willfully misleading, Is that what Bush and Cheney did for 8 yrs,

President Obamas top aid is Retired Marine General Jones, A Marine that has more experience than any of the warmongers that have never had military time. I'm sure he knows when to send in more troops.

this administration cotinues to formulate war policy based on how it affects them politicly.Say what you want about George Bush,he never made decisions about the lives of our soldiers based upon how popular he would be.Whats going on now is shameful and beneath contempt

Sooner or later, even the most avid supporters will grow weary of Obama & Co's continual blaming.

QUIT WHINING, MR. EMMANUEL. Be professional and encourage your boss to do the same. Continual blaming of others, no matter how deserved, gets old after a while.

Signed,

Just Another post CNN will ignore.

Bush needed the pipeline in Afhghan and the oil in Iraq. He knew he didn't have popular support for either if he told his sheep (you) that we needed to get as much oil as possible before we start seeing the effects of Peak Oil. That's why we got the hard sell on Iraq. We secured the pipeline and routed the Taliban early so we flipped over to the other Iranian border an invaded Iraq (too soon, apparently). Iran would have been the Trifecta for the neo-con regime, however, the CIA couldn't hack enough voting machines to put their man in... paper trails, go figure.

And now we're left with hope...

Mr. President, please deliver us from temptation.

Ed Gillespie? Former 'Bush' aide......,? Lol! That 'splains it, right there.....,I would say he has a biased opinion, at least as much as Rahm does.....,

Coming from a country that was occupied by the British Army for the best part of 30 years – I can say with experience that things are rarely as they are portrayed by EITHER side – and I suspect that is the case here. You will always have opposing views on exactly the same situation in Afghanistan – it comes as no surprise whatsoever that the current administration views things differently to the previous administration given how opposite their approaches have been.

I'm just grateful that the Obama administration is in place to see this through to the finish – and the need to get on with it!

The Afghans live to fight and kill. Research what happened to the Soviet soldiers and every other army that has tried to fight in Afghanistan. Read Horse Soldiers. Then ask yourselves "Why are we really in Afghanistan and Iraq?" They cut the lower jaw bone out of the Soviet soldier and sent him home with his mouth hanging open, they cut the head off their enemy, set it in his lap, poured gasoline down his windpipe and set him on fire. That's war.

Does Rahm Emanuel and this administration have any idea how badly they are degregating our military? The politics in all of this really are disgusting.

Rahm Emanuel will point the finger, blame and make up an EXCUSE of the worst president in the history of the United States.
obama has been whining and crying about his own personal problems of "MAKING DECISIONS IN A TIMELY MANNER" AND NOT KNOWING WHAT "WHAT DECISION TO MAKE, PERIOD!"

Rahm Emanuel is an overly agressive, arrogant, idiot who is cocky beyond reason. Emanuel thinks he knows the answer to everything and if not, WILL FABRICATE SOMETHING TO PROTECT HIS BOY FRIEND, OBAMA.

obama is obviously nothing but a Weak, Ineffectual President. How he was elected is a case for explanation by ACORN.
obama is a disgrace to this great nation.......He makes me ashamed.

Stop blaming the Bush administration for everything, then they don't have to respond and you don't have to respond to their response. This is being to resemble a child's "are too" "are not" argument.

Ha ha. Where are the WMD's??????

Remember this is the President that voted "present" over 140 times in the Illinois legislature. I guess a simple "yes" or "no" on a bill was too difficult to decide. (Remember we must carefully calculate the "political" ramifications of everything- it's all about elections, not governing.) So don't be surprised if it takes him months to decide anything! Maybe the issue will so away without a decision- ya think? It's much easier to keep blaming someone else for his indecisiveness.

I am so sick of hearing how everything is Bush's fault. I don't recall a single President from Jimmy Carter to the present (excluding President Obama) that ever laid the blame for all his woes at the feet of the former President. On the campaign trail BO said he had all the answers and that the Bush administration had it all wrong...now we find out BO doesnt have any answers and he carries on the very same policies that President Bush had implemented (to include the rules of interrogation, the Patriot Act and wire tapping and keeping troops in Iraq). It's about time he manned up and took responsibility for the war, the economy and every other challenge that faces the nation...wasn't it he who said we weren't going to look backward but forward?

Just to respond to the comment made by Karen....One has to acknowledge where the problem originated and failure to act should be duly noted. I think it's so easy for everyone to say: why are we blaming the Bush administration?"..Well, if Obama was with the previous administration he would also be blamed. As far as the Afgan war, it's not an easy problem for any leader or president and I believe that was why the Bush administration was unable to be decisive about the region or make any concrete decision about what and how to move forward. We lost the focus from the time we started the War in Iraq. It' that simple.. There was misallocation of resources..It is a difficult region and I am glad that President Obama is taking his time to make the right decison as supposed to what his critics or supporters think he should do. After all, he is the Commander-in-chief.

Well, if Bush had it so right, then why are we still there and how come it's still such a mess?

Ah, Karen, wasn't it President Bush who looked into Putin's eyes and said he knew what he was about?

Stop talking voodoo.

And the Bush administration, including him, were "well informed"?! about anything?

Rahm Emmanuel is a foul mouth chicago mafia type and he shows it every time he opens his mouth.
This Whitehouse is going down in history as the "Whitehouse of Profanity", and the lamest bunch of little boys.
Jack C
WA

In March Obama announced a new clear and comprehensive military plan for athe Afgahn war.
Just another lie from a man who lies so much he has lost touch with reality. This man's only idea is to blame Bush for everything and forgetting he has caused the US to have the largest debt EVER and wants congress to raise the debt limit so he and the dems can push this country deeper into debt. Obama is going to cause this country to become a third world country, but that is his plan. His idol Hugo Chavez is proud along with his mentor the racist rev wright.

What party was incharge of oversight and ignored dire warning about the failures of Freddie and Fannie and the banking sector? And still hold those positions.
Give a hint, one was getting special deals on his mortgage and the other was getting rear ended by an exec at Freddie.
Culture of corruption is live and well in the liberal party.

I just cannot figure out why libs enjoy watching our men and women die.

Look at his eyes? LOL You are very very funny! Remember when in a gun battle in the old west, looking at the eyes was not key yo success. Looking at the man with his finger on the trigger and shooting him dead first worked!! Going straight to the source was key and that never happened. Now a new war is supposed to begin and we are supposed to forget that we have been there for 8 years doing absolutely nothing. Bush's people are so busy contradicting the obvious all the time. They are on a mission to rewrite history. Let's not allow them to make this happen.

Rahm Emanuel is a foul mouth idiot.

Why should we do less attacking and blaming others? Does the truth about Bush's disastrous administration hurt? Instead of deflecting criticism, why don't you just admit Bush's incompetence and apologize to those of us who voted against the Republicans and the mess they left for us?

How long can the Obama administration blame the previous administration ??? Step up to the plate and take some action... and some responsibility...

"Emanuel strongly suggested that the current scenario in Afghanistan...was the result of missteps on the part of the previous administration."

From 2002 to 2008, Bush and Cheney left our soldiers in Afghanistan without material support, without leadership, and without a strategy.

Bush and Cheney should have been impeached for this CRIME against our soldiers.

These cynical criticisms by the cowardly Republicans, who betrayed our troops and who know better, are the reason why we will LOSE the war in Afghanistan.

This is the "Pot Calling the Kettle Black". Lord how uninformed did the previous adminstration leave the American public AND continue to try to protect and rewrite the legacy of shame they left us.

Unbelievable that they come back out of the woodwork to tell Obama what he should do now. After BUSH AND CO. LEFT THE SCENE OF THE CRIME eight years ago to start a totally unrelated WAR and left Afghanistan to self destruct is unconscionable !!

They have 0 credibility and everyone knows it.

When will we focus on the future rather than dwell on the past?

So maybe Rahm knows about the "proposal and review." He never said he didn't. He stated (in response to GOP smears) that they let the Afgan war go adrift over the last 8 years...and anyone that has read the news in the last 8 years knows that this is correct.

Obama should stop blaming Bush as soon as all the Bush cronies stop giving him reason to.

This person (Gillespie)never says anything but the party line. No credibility at all

Rahm is quite possibly the sleaziest person in government during my lifetime...and I lived through Nixon. The entire Obama administration is nothing short of Nixonian in it's handling of those who dare to dissent. Where are all those "dissent is patriotic" bumper stickers now?!

Rahm is a snake in the grass and the people better beware of what he says and does. Remember, he is from Chicago, one of the most, if not the most, corrupt political places in the nation.

Rahm Emanuel is an evil person who will do whatever it takes, legal or illegal, within or outside of the Constitution, to get a job done. He knows no limits in terms of legality or ethics. He and Axelrod are the puppeteers who send this jerk, O'Bama out on the hustings to make all kinds of meaningless promises. He and Axelrod both have an elitist attitude toward the so-called "regular folks" – tell 'em anything, just shut them up. I almost feel sorry for this dumb president that he allows himself to be "gamed" this way.

The only time I ever hear someone from the Obama administration comment on the Bush administration is when Republicans, especially Dick Cheney, start trying to tell Obama how he ought to conduct the war effort. The President has clearly stated the process he is conducting and if the Republicans don't want to assume any responsibility for it then they ought to keep their mouths shut.

"look at his eyes" are you serious Karen? So after watching 8 years of Dick looking out the side of his head that you trusted??

We wouldn't be in this mess if Bush had not taken his eye off of Afghanistan in the first place. We never should have gone into Iraq in the first place. Bush got terrible advice from the old, cold war, harliners like Rummy and Darth Vader. Wake up Ed, your man screwed it up.

This Current Administration, I think just was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for blaming everyone and anyone for their problems, Bush being a favorite person to blame. Its great for them, they hope to not take responsibilty for any of their actions. thats was the reason for the award wasnt it...or can some one tell me what it was. I Know if Bush is the Blame then Bush should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yeah, I'm sure that's why its going so well over there. If people were more concerned about American lives than they are over their own legacy. There was so much about the Bush White House that still needs answering, the refusal to admit that Iraq was a wrong decision at the time and that Afghanistan was put on the back burner because it did not fit into Bush/Cheneys agenda. The sad fact of the matter is that the Bush/Cheney "gang" have very little credibility in any thing they say.

ALERT! Did you know the Democrats in the Senate are going to take away the requirement of your employer to provide Health Insurance as a Benefit of Employment? Can't figure out what that smelly, soft, lumpy, patty is that just hit you in the Head? Well this one is coming from Reid and Pulosi, not the cow!

It is impossible for anyone in the Bush administrations, including Gillespie, to justify leaving Afgan for Iraq. We had the Taliban/AQ virtually destroyed and a native population on our side. Their terrible mistake in leaving is costing us dearly.

BTW, before anyone brings up the faulty intel on WMD, please explain how so many nations failed to provide any significant number of troops and resources to the Iraq war? They had the same intel we did and they interpreted it correctly.

Blah blah blah. When is Obama and his team going to stop blaming Bush for everything and just do their own job. I voted for BO but am getting really annoyed at how him and his admin throws temper tantrums when things don't go their way and can't take responsibility for anything. Grow up!

Fourtunately, the American public doesn't buy the hogwash.

Yes Raham can be trusted. He is a good man. Of course the Obama administration looks a little lame right now; their are still cleaning up the mess from the previous adm. It takes a good 12-14 months just to let the negatives slow down and then he (Obama) can start making decisions on his own that will make a difference. It took 8 + years to get into the mess we are in so be patient, smarter and cooler heads will prevail. We have a great Constitution and (it) will prevail.

Ed needs to pay attention at the TIME of these screwups, instead of waiting for someone to point out the truth, years later!!

Aide? I seriously doubt he aided much. If I was briefed by the Bush admin you can sure bet I would seek other opinions too. There is no way I would trust any evaluations from that corrupted bunch.

Well let's see.....the Bush administration didn't capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan , didn't capture Mullah Omar in Afghanistan, let all the al-Qaeda escape into Pakistan....and then while sending no troops there due to being bogged down in Iraq allowed the Taliban to come back into Afghanistan in droves.....and put a guy into office (Karzai) who now seems to be quite corrupt–all well prior to Democrats winning and taking office.

Sounds like less than great planning and execution to me Mr. Gillespie....or am I willfully misleading people by pointing these things out?

EVERYONE is weary of hearing the Bush Blame Game. Just do your job, Obama. The honeymoon is over. Now, just do your job.

Bush owns the problem in Afghanistan: he left it for his successor – either Obama or McCain to solve it: Its not "blame" but "responsibility". Its a mess that President Obama will have to clean up: he didn't start it but he will have to end it. To forget who ignored Afghanistan to invade Iraq is a pathetic attempt to rewrite history... a history we all remember.

Look, just like the President himself and the party he leads, it is now our role to never take responsibilty and always cast blame.
Junior comes home from school with an "F", it's not his fault, it must be the oppressed curriculum.
John Doe gets fired; can't be his fault, the mean corporate boss expected results.
Entertainer A sleeps with his staff members and thus cheats on his wife and kids...not his fault, blame someone else.
In fact, if you don't like my opinion on this topic then I choose to blame my parents for insisting that despite the fact that we grew up poor because they lost their union jobs, I should take responsibility for my actions.

Afghanistan was our first real protracted war since Vietnam...protracted because the Bush administration became obsessed and distracted with Iraq, a war which was a monumental strategic blunder to even start. For more than seven years that Administration had precious little resources to give to the Afghanistan conflict and people are only NOW wondering why things are not going well there? Typical American press and public...suffering from short term memory loss.

Emanuel is just a political anaimal. He doesn't understand real issues such as the Afghan war.
He seems to think that blaming others for everything and taking no responsibility for anything will win Obama points.
Americans are a little too mature for such childish games.

Bush was a WAR president in his own words..only trouble was...he only started wars, he never finished them, and never did any deep analysis on them other than continually ask for more money. No wonder Mr. Gillespie seems 'dizzy' to try and spin the Bush years as positively as he can...any release of their supposed 'analysis' will show nothing near as intelligent as the current administration's stance to see how the runoff elections go.

I guess I am a little slow. How can obama's incapability to make a decision to 'his' general's request be bush's fault. Sorry, I am trying to figure that out but am just a little slow to comprehend that.

Give Obama the same kind of America when Bush took office and then Repubicans and Rep. consers. can talk. When you leave a pile of Crap it's going to take some time to clean it up and get the smell out.

Are the new lies as bad as the old lies? Is lying now an inherent part of the administration? Seems everyone in power cannot stick to the truth and is in the business of blaming, having specific agendas, and so on (I mean the Bush, the Clinton and the current administration... they all seem to have their problems with the truth)...

I thought Bush was bad, but Obama and his thugs take the cake! We have all be hoodooed!!!!!

You republicans want us to quickly sweep the Bush era under the rug and move on. We refuse too because every single thing we're going through right now is a direct result of Bush's mismanagement. He and the Republicans passed tax cuts for the rich without paying for it. They also passed an incredibly expensive Medicare Drug Bill without paying for it either. They waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with no funding sources while having both wars go to hell in a hand basket. They were inept and irresponsible with the nations money and need to be called on it. After 7 years in Afghanistan, they need to be called out for not having done anything to advance the war there. Instead they took all of the troops to Iraq leaving a token force behind. We are in the mess we're in because of Bush/Cheney.

Time to tell the truth, Rahm Emanual was caught in a lie. This is is straight out of book The Thumpin: How Rahm Emanual and the Democrats Learned to be ruthless and ended the Republican revolution.

Obama bring our troops home if your not going to give them what
they need to succeed in this war.

How many times during the last 8 years did Bush administration reviewed the situation in Afghanistant, and what did they do about it? If you fought a war like Gulf 1, surely you should give the generals everything they wanted. The Afghan war might be just another war for the generals, but it was a total different kind of war. As in VN, it was not a pure military war. It might be more effective to fight this war with less on the military side and more on the civilian side.

this is all getting very tiresome. it's someone else's turn now. let them do their jobs.

Yeah, because I'm supposed to believe anything from an administration that lied to us about WMDs in Iraq and that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. The ONLY reason we went to Iraq was so Bushie Jr. could finish what Bushie Sr. started, so he could finally get daddy's approval. Bush's cronies need to give it up already. We're done with their lies.

To all in POLITICS ... just do more of your job and less attacking and blaming others. Its been over 9 months since Obama has been in office and everything can not be blamed now on the previous president. Take responsibility and take action. War is war and we must act quickly, as well as responsibly.

Stop the blame game on all sides.

Let's concede on Mr. Gillespie his point that Bush left a review for the new adminstration. What continues to be forgotten is the fact that Bush never finished what he started. The focus on Iraq, which was not directly responsible for 9/11, allowed the Taliban to regroup and is a primary reason for today's predicament.

where does Gillespie want to start on misteps. Failing to heed warnings about plane attacks, welcomed as liberators, mission accomplished complete with uniformed Bush. and there is always the economy that started tanking during the Republicans time in office. And as Sonny & Cher so ably stated – "And the beat goes on".

I will be so glad when the Obama administration stops blaming the Bush administration for everything. He seems to be very hesitant to make decisions. As for Rahm Emanuel – look at his eyes, can we trust him???