Guess who Obama is blaming for those 13000 troops being sent to Afghanistan?

Yesterday, it was discovered that 13000 additional support troops are being sent to Afghanistan despite the White House purposely trying to keep it on the down low...

By late afternoon the White House was spinning for all it was worth and blaming it all on the evil George W Boosh...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters today, according to the AP, that President Bush, who left office 276 days ago, was to blame for the latest troop increase:

Later, spokesman Robert Gibbs rejected a published report that the president had authorized 13,000 additional troops that were now arriving in Afghanistan. He said those troops were part of a deployment ordered by the former Bush administration, but had not made their way to the Afghan theater by the time Obama became president.

Hold up. Not so fast there, Baghdad Bob Gibbs.

"The 21,000 are only combat forces, and when the combat forces go in, there are a certain amount of additional forces that are required," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who signs the deployment orders, had military officials identify last spring the entire scope of the increase and agreed that he would consult with Obama again if the Pentagon sought to go above that, Whitman said.

"Obama authorized the whole thing. The only thing you saw announced in a press release was the 21,000," said another defense official familiar with the troop-approval process.

The most 'transparent' White House in history strikes again.