The headline at Politico  says Admiral “Mike Mullen disputes Donald Rumsfeld on Afghan troop request.”     “The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pushed back in a fact-checking dispute with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asserting that the Bush administration rejected a Pentagon request for more troops for Afghanistan last year.  Adm. Michael Mullen told a House committee Wednesday that Gen. David McKiernan, who led U.S. troops in Afghanistan between 2008 and this year, had asked for 20,000 troops for the effort but was rebuffed.”   Um, Donald Rumsfeld was replaced as Secretary of Defense in 2006.  His replacement was Robert Gates, who stayed on to be President Obama’s SecDef.   General McKiernan, by the way, was the commander in Afghanistan from June 2008 to June 2009 when Gates and Obama fired him, meaning he served in that role under President Bush for about the last seven months of...(Read Full Post)