NotfooledbyW
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- Jul 9, 2014
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Is he the same guy who came up with the failed surge?
What 'failed surge'? Listen to Obama's West Point speech where he announced the second surge and set July 2011 for that surge to start winding down. The goal was to buy time to train and build up Afghan security forces to 300,000 si they could take the lead against the insurgency. Check. That had been done.
I don't think Votel had anything to do with any surge.
As a colonel he led the 75th Ranger Regiment the Armys elite light-infantry Rangers as its members parachuted into Afghanistan on Oct. 19, 2001, to set up what would become Camp Rhino, the first U.S. base established in the country.
The swift, quiet rise of Lt. Gen. Joseph Votel, Special Operations commander - The Washington Post
I see no reason you should suspect him of lying to be promoted with the resume he already has in serving our country.