Killing Machine (53 page)

     
on presidential wartime authority,
130
,
195–96
,
207
,
215–16
,
226–27

Widmer, Ted,
85–86

Will, George,
70–71

Winnefeld, James,
194
,
195

withdrawal time frame, Afghan War

     
McChrystal on,
74–75

     
media on,
123

     
Obama administration on troop surge,
61
,
62–64
,
66–68
,
69–70
,
118

     
U.S. military on,
120
,
124

     
war realities clashing with,
112
,
123

withdrawal time frame, Iraq War

     
Obama administration,
26
,
66

     
Obama on,
20–21
,
22

     
in presidential election campaign of 2008,
18
,
20–21

     
“remissioning” within,
26

     
for troop surge in Iraq War,
17–19
,
20–21

WMDs.
See
Weapons of Mass Destruction

Wolf, Frank R.,
33–34

Wolfowitz, Paul,
131–32

women, rights of,
45
,
53
,
62
,
96

Woodward, Bob,
59
,
107

Wright, Lawrence,
157

Wyden, Ron,
236–37

Yemen

     
AQAP in,
162–63
,
168
,
170
,
173

     
al-Awlaki, Anwar, in,
163
,
164

     
government of,
162–63
,
170
,
171
,
177
,
222

     
U.S. relationship with,
162–63
,
170
,
171
,
173
,
174
,
177–78
,
222
,
241–42

Yoo, John,
ix
,
130
,
141

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab,
50

al-Zawahiri, Ayman,
173
,
218

Zenko, Micah,
135–36
,
241–42

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