Fact Checking Gibbs: Did McKiernan’s Troop Requests Just Sit on Bush White House Desks?

Did the Bush administration really ignore McKiernan’s requests? “Throughout most of 2008, the Bush administration tried to get NATO countries to fill that gap, though they had to have known that would be a challenge. By the late summer, 2008 Bush administration officials realized NATO wasn’t going to come through.” Dithering? Maybe.