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George W. Bush praises President Obama’s Afghanistan surge in his Upcoming Decision Points Memoir

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I don’t know if I should be mad about this or not:

“In his memoir, George W. Bush praises President Barack Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan.

“I strongly believe the mission is worth the cost,” Bush wrote in “Decision Points,” which comes out Tuesday. “Fortunately, I am not the only one.”

He expresses gratitude that Obama “stood up to critics by deploying more troops, announcing a new commitment to counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, and increasing the pressure on Pakistan to fight the extremists in the tribal areas.””

I’m reading Jonathan Altar’s The Promise about Obama’s first year in office right now and, even though I think Afghanistan was initially a just war that slowly morphed into a clusterf-ck that now can’t be won, reading some more background on it in the book has made me rethink that position. I was a mouthy bastard with my anti-Bush/anti-war vitriol on the old blog back when he was still in office and both wars were jumping off. Now I don’t know any more….

Hit the jump to watch a video of GWB promoting Decision Points:


BUY on Amazon.com – Decision Points | The Promise

[via Politico]

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