There's nothing like a little rightwing editorializing from the so-called liberal media.
From the Associated Press:
Still, it goes some way toward dispelling the notion that a liberal Democrat with a known distaste for war — Obama campaigned on his consistent opposition to the Iraq invasion — doesn't have the chops to call on U.S. military power.
... and the Washington Post:
Nonetheless, it may help to quell criticism leveled at Obama that he came to office as a Democratic antiwar candidate who could prove unwilling or unable to harness military might when necessary.
Before regurgitating talking points, perhaps the AP and Washington Post could have done "the google," and found Obama's 2002 speech on the Iraq War:
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war ... That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
... and from candidate Obama:
We're confronting an urgent crisis in Afghanistan, and we have to act ... I would send two to three additional brigades to Afghanistan.
So, whose notion and whose criticism was the AP and Washington Post citing? Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh? Seriously, could anymore garbage be packed into two short sentences?
As Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent pointed out:
And that’s a meme that just ... doesn’t exist beyond some of the more fevered conservative imaginations. And not even that many fevered conservative imaginations!
Apparently we can add the AP and Washington Post to the ranks of the fevered.