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Originally Posted by sailaway21
Chuckles is correct. President Bush lost confidence in his generals (nothing new there-Lincoln had the same problem!) and promoted Casey up and out-in essence, Abizaid retired, and Petraeus, along with his theory of counterinsurgency warfare, which I like to call "asses in the grass", got promoted to running Iraq. It's hardly likely that Mr. Woodward would recognize the way changes in course are made at the highest levels of the military as he's spent the better part of his career despising them.
In short, President Bush sacked his generals and got new ones who could "git 'er done". Generally speaking, that's called leadership.
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SO why does BUsh have to lie that he is listening to and following the advice of his commanders on the ground when he clearly wasn't????? he would have saved a lot of face if he had said he was cleaning house to get the right people in the right jobs. NOw THAT WOULD BE LEADERSHIP, not lying to the American people. AS usual, you have leadership upside down.