According to new dossier released by former Watergate scribe, PRESIDENT OBAMA rejected all proposals from top military advisers when optimizing new strategies for the Afghan war. Instead, he designed his own strategy, infuriating top brass!
Top journo BOB WOODWARD writes in new book Obama’s Wars based on meetings notes and documents, that Obama was apparently frustrated with his hard-line, experienced military staffers because they only offered exit-plan options to the Afghan conflict the president didn’t want to hear.
In a classified six-page "terms sheet" Obama crafted his own plan that sought to limit U.S. involvement.
According to the declassified memos of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, Obama avoided talk of victory .
"This needs to be a plan about how we’re going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan," Obama is quoted in the book, as he delineated his reasoning for ADDING 30,000 troops in a "short-term" escalation.
"Everything we’re doing has to be focused on how we’re going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It’s in our national security interest. There cannot be any wiggle room."
In doing so, Obama infuriated his more-experienced military advisers.
According to Woodward, Gen. David Petraeus felt so isolated by the administration’s off-handed dismissal of his plan, he stormed out of a meeting, saying the White House was "f-king with the wrong guy."
National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones became so distrustful of the President’s inner circle he secretly began calling them the "Politburo" and the "Mafia."
Woodward charges that Obama has kept in place or expanded 14 intelligence orders, known as findings, issued by his predecessor, George W. Bush. The orders provide the legal basis for the CIA’s worldwide covert operations including a clandestine Afghan trained army under the auspices of the CIA to combat Paki insurgents.
Even Vice President Biden warned Obama that his plan of a major escalation in Afghanistan would mean "we’re locked into Vietnam."
