I was watching This Week in Politics yesterday and I heard a John Lehman call Admiral Mullen a defeatist. I am wondering if anybody else is going to pick this up? The right criticizes the left when remarks are made about degrading commanders, so is anybody going to hold John Lehman and the McCain campaign accountable?
From CNN's This Week in Politics
KING: I want you to listen to -- I think a very sober assessment from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, talking about Afghanistan. He sounds very -- let me just I say, unoptimistic.
Let -- listen to Admiral Mullen.
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ADM. MIKE MULLEN, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN: I'm not convinced we're winning it in Afghanistan. It is my professional opinion that no amount of troops in no amount of time can ever achieve all the objectives we seek in Afghanistan.
And, frankly, we're running out of time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KING: Secretary Lehman, if that's the opinion of the joint chiefs and the chairman of the joint chiefs what would a President McCain do in Afghanistan?
LEHMAN: Well, I think that a President McCain would, indeed, believe and does believe we can win in Afghanistan and by winning we mean that it -- he can turn Afghanistan into a government and an area that is not a base for the Taliban or al Qaeda or any other enemy of the United States, that it provides security for its people and does not form a threat to any of its neighbors.
That's a simple definition and it's got to be achievable.
To say that we can't win in Afghanistan is very defeatist and unacceptable, but the fact is, we now have to shift more enterprise to Afghanistan. The central front of the war was in Iraq by Osama bin Laden's declaration.
I have put the important parts in bold text.
So let's get this story out and show McCain's campaign for its double talk. Let's not let them get away with this.
jamielswa