Mullen Throws Obama Under the Bus … | The Weekly Standard

You are here: Blog / Mullen Throws Obama Under the Bus …

Hot Topics:

By telling the truth.

10:16 AM, Jun 23, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts

Mullen and Obama

Here’s a startling excerpt from the prepared testimony of Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is testifying this morning in front of the House Armed Services Committee: “I would prefer not to discuss the specifics of the private advice I rendered with respect to these decisions. As I said, I support them. What I can tell you is, the President’s decisions are more aggressive and incur more risk than I was originally prepared to accept.”

« Previous Post

Article TAGS:

Afghanistan, Mike Mullen, War

Browse 15 Years of the Weekly Standard

Old covers

Dewhurst Ad: The Liberal Tom Leppert

Obama in the Oval Office 2009-10

'Vastly Overrated'

The Jobs Crisis in One Simple Chart

npr2

Biting the Hand at NPR

Cover

Conservative Intelligence
Satirical Wit
Foreign Policy Insight
Sophisticated Perspective

A Parody

From The Scrapbook

From The Scrapbook

Should Romney Retrench on Gay Marriage?
Crucified by Government

Washington plays by TSA rules.
No Spin Zone

Reflections from the thinking man’s knuckleballer.
‘On My Behalf’

Really?
Action in Character

A film without pretension about warriors as heroes.
Birth of a Nation

With American evangelicals on the ground in South Sudan.
Will Gay Marriage Hurt Obama with African Americans?
Dems Disenfranchise Voters After Polls Show Obama in Close Primary Race

"Is this some kind of North Korea thing?"
Down with Facebook!

What nobody bothers to mention about the social-networking site is that it's really dull--mind-numbingly dull.
Charlotte Was A Bad Choice

The Official Obama Head - Get One!

Why we build memorials.

The American and his/her car.

Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback.