Keep it simple:

From the White House webpage, President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental, we read:

... the House and Senate [are] substituting the judgment of politicians in Washington for the judgment of our commanders on the ground ...

That presupposes a neutrality regarding the "commanders on the ground". That they are impartial in terms of goals and are more or less a random sample of "commanders" throughout the military. But that's false. A more accurate statement (which you will never hear from Bush) would be this:

... the House and Senate [are] substituting the judgment of politicians in Washington for the judgment of ... commanders I have chosen to place on the ground ...

posted by Quiddity at 4/03/2007 03:07:00 PM