Great clip, compare Obama and Bush... ie the REAL Agenda:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheConspiracyFact

Rachel Maddow weighs in on President Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan and his continuation of the Bush doctrine of preventive war in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rachel brought up our CIA's covert action in Pakistan, but she forgot to mention Blackwater. She should have Jeremy Scahill on sometime soon if she wants to get into what we're doing in Pakistan. MADDOW: Tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, this years Nobel Peace laureate escalated the war in Afghanistan—for the second time in just the first year of his presidency.

In March, you will recall this president announced that his new administration had concluded a careful policy review of the options available in Afghanistan then and had decided to send 21,000 more troops. To put that first escalation in context, this is what American troop levels were like eight years ago—the first December after we invaded. See that little tiny blip down there in the left? This is how they changed over time through the Bush administration and through, frankly, the election of Mr. Obama. This is whats happened during President Obamas first year in office.

And this is what hes just announced hes going to do by next summer.

And then nine days after that, he flies to Oslo to get his Nobel Peace prize. The presidents speech tonight at West Point in a way is an awkward bookmark to the previous presidents famous West Point speech when the Afghanistan war was only eight months old, not eight years old. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, THEN-U.S. PRESIDENT: Our war on terror is only begun, but in Afghanistan, it was begun well. (END VIDEO CLIP) MADDOW: It turns out that wasnt very true.

And eight years later, the next president is stuck explaining his choice among all the, frankly, pretty bad options available to fix Bushs supposedly begun well war. The President Bush bragging at West Point about how awesome he thought things had gone in Afghanistan at that point is not what that speech is remembered for. President Bush bragged in a lot of places about how awesome he thought things had gone in Afghanistan, even as both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, not only survived, but survived unscathed and stayed in business as militant leaders, just now relocated eastward slightly.

If Omar went from Kandahar to Quetta in Pakistan, that means he moved slightly less than the distance between Wichita and Topeka. Now, President Bushs West Point speech is remembered not because he was uniquely wrong in his comments there about Afghanistan itself, he was wrong a lot about his comments about Afghanistan itself. That speech is remembered because it was at West Point where he unveils what may have been the single most radical thing about his presidency.