This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," October 28, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
I'd like to think that it's just needs more thought, but the fact of the matter is, we heard from Vice President Cheney just a little over a week ago that there was a complete vetting, a new -- a bottom-up review, if you will, by the generals in Afghanistan, and they handed to the president in January a new plan, a lain-out counterinsurgency strategy that was recommended by General Petraeus in Iraq, a similar one now for Afghanistan, the war that President Obama said was the right war. He was given that strategy, and he sat on it and did nothing, then, subsequently, authorized this review by General McChrystal. We heard from General McChrystal that he didn't communicate with the president or the White House for some 70 days, was not able to get any kind of audience with the president, and then finally, when that became public, the administration started to pay attention to it, got the report in August, two months ago, and has sat on it since then.
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I'd like to think that it's just needs more thought, but the fact of the matter is, we heard from Vice President Cheney just a little over a week ago that there was a complete vetting, a new -- a bottom-up review, if you will, by the generals in Afghanistan, and they handed to the president in January a new plan, a lain-out counterinsurgency strategy that was recommended by General Petraeus in Iraq, a similar one now for Afghanistan, the war that President Obama said was the right war. He was given that strategy, and he sat on it and did nothing, then, subsequently, authorized this review by General McChrystal. We heard from General McChrystal that he didn't communicate with the president or the White House for some 70 days, was not able to get any kind of audience with the president, and then finally, when that became public, the administration started to pay attention to it, got the report in August, two months ago, and has sat on it since then.
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