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Caution: Right wing heads may explode due to crumbling narrative.

From TPM:

Late last week, one of the politicals at the Bush Pentagon, spokesman Bryan Whitman tried to stick his thumb into the ongoing presidential campaign by publicly doubting the veracity of the anecdote Sen. Obama used about the Army Captain in Afghanistan in last weeks Democratic debate. "I find that account pretty hard to imagine," he told reporters after the debate.

Today Gen. George Casey, Chief of Staff of the Army, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee with a very different take on the story.

From the AP ...

"Gen. George Casey, the Army's chief of staff, said Tuesday he has no reason to doubt Barack Obama's recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn't have enough soldiers or weapons.

But he questioned the assertion that the shortages prevented the troops from doing their job.

Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Casey said the incident would have occurred in 2003 and 2004 following the Iraq invasion. He said he remembers it as a "difficult time" trying to rush armor and other equipment to the troops."