re: #313 albusteve

of course it is…BO took over and said he had a plan, but he didn’t…time went by and the pressure forced him to make a decision…but it was 6 months later when he made the choice to insert 30k troops, that was just over a year ago…nothing much happened when he decides he needs to enforce this political timetable and the polls, so he announces his withdrawal plan, which is no more than an open ended withdrawal of the troops he just put there…BO has definitely played politics with his war, each step dictated by polls or public opinion

Steve,

To be clear, Obama announced the surge in late November of 2009 and said he would start bringing them home in 18 months:

huffingtonpost.com

and that is exactly what he is doing. If it’s politics, it’s also the truth.