David Petraeus

General 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.

The Washington Post reports:

Earlier 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:

Keep America Safe is out today with a new ad, blasting the president for taking "more risk" in Afghanistan than his generals recommended:

"Senate confirms Petraeus as next CIA director with 94-0 vote"

"Under the new Wisconsin budget repair, one school district goes from a $400,000 deficit to a $1.5 million surplus."

"Sen. Thune says the best way to meet President Obama is to 'set up a tee time'"

General Jack Keane, earlier today on Fox News, blasted President Obama for prematurely withdrawing from Afghanistan:

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.

The Foreign Policy Initiative has compiled a fact sheet on Afghanistan, detailing problems with President Obama's withdrawal plan: 

Karl Rove: "Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012"

"Obama, as suspected, disregarded the Afghan troop drawdown recommendation of Gen. Petraeus"

General 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.”

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.”