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Former Clinton drug czar General Barry McCaffrey had a frew words with NBC's Campbell Brown on the Today show this morning, Mark Finkelstein reports at Newsbusters.org.

He cites Carl Levin, who among others, spent some time this weekend decrying General George Casey's troop drawdown contingencies are purely political.  McCaffrey was supposed to back this notion, but he didn't.  Ht told Brown that the plans were both realistic and a good idea.

Brown:

"Is it fair to say -- and maybe you are saying that politics is not playing a role [but] our NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll shows 50 percent of Americans saying it's time for troops to come home. [How much is that] having an effect? Are they part of the decision making process?"

That strikes me as offensive, stating directly that the General in charge of our troops in Iraq is playing politics for this or any Administration.  What kind of general does Brown think he is?  That is the most cynical and ugly notion I've heard in a long time.

McCaffrey was able to dismiss the role of politics - and of the Pentagon.  His people, it seems, are telling him that President Bush is relying directly on the military for their best judgments.

Read Finkelstein's piece.