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2:31 PM, Dec 29, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYFrom the Associated Press:
Four-star general-turned-CIA director David Petraeus was urged to resign as Afghanistan war commander over President Barack Obama's decision to quickly withdraw surge forces, according to a new insider's look at Petraeus' 37-year Army career.
Conservative writer Max Boot had urged he take that course of action, but Petraeus decided that resigning would be a "selfish, grandstanding move with huge political ramifications" and that now was "time to salute and carry on," according to a forthcoming biography.
"Director Petraeus has publicly stated that he never contemplated resignation," CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said Thursday.
The book this report comes from is All In: The Education of General David Petraeus by Paula Broadwell and Vernon Loeb, which is released next month.
10:43 AM, Sep 1, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERGeneral David Petraeus, at his military retirement ceremony, said "that the nation’s leaders, faced with tough budget decisions, should be careful not to cut the military’s budget too deeply in the years ahead," the Washington Post reports.
Read more... And a miss.3:14 PM, Jul 14, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPEREarlier this week, Keep America Safe released the following ad, criticizing President Obama for not taking his military commanders' advice and for prematurely withdrawing from Afghanistan:
Read more... 9:04 AM, Jul 12, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERKeep America Safe is out today with a new ad, blasting the president for taking "more risk" in Afghanistan than his generals recommended:
Read more... 2:21 PM, Jun 29, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERGeneral Jack Keane, earlier today on Fox News, blasted President Obama for prematurely withdrawing from Afghanistan:
Read more... 5:21 PM, Jun 28, 2011 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES
Lieutenant General John Allen told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the Afghanistan decision President Obama announced last week was not among the range of options the military provided to the commander in chief. Allen’s testimony directly contradicts claims from senior Obama administration officials from a background briefing before the president’s announcement.
Read more... 5:55 PM, Jun 23, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENGeneral David Petraeus, the current commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said today that President Obama’s decision to withdraw over 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by September 2012 is a “more aggressive” plan than the one on which the president’s military commanders had advised.
“The responsibility of combat commander in that kind of situation is to provide options to the president to implement his stated policy,” said Petraeus. “And that’s what I did.”
Read more... 12:06 PM, Jun 23, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER
The boss blasted President Obama’s plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan a couple minutes ago on Fox News. “Most strikingly,” Bill Kristol said, “was the president's announcement about the September 2012 deadline: cutting the fighting season in half next year and really putting at risk our achievements in Afghanistan. I mean, it is really remarkable when our troop deployment schedule is being determined by David Axelrod, not by David Petraeus.”
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