Karl Rove [not on Fox News], discusses Afghanistan and ObamaCare. [ABC]

The U.S. generals fighting the war in Afghanistan were given what the Bush administration thought were "appropriate" resources but U.S. allies failed to fullfill their commitments to the Afghan war, former Bush adviser Karl Rove said today.

"The United States had at the time what the military felt was an appropriate level of resources and in retrospect, everybody now says we wish we would've done more," Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush, said on "Good Morning America" today. "We felt, in the previous administation, that our coalition partners were not meeting their responsibilities."

Rove says the Bush administration provided as many resources as they thought were needed in the country at the time, but that it was the United States' partners who were not meeting their responsibilities.

"I think we've got to look at it in a more sophisticated way. These answers become clear in retrospect. I don't believe at the time the military was saying we need significantly more. If there had been that cry, I expect the administration -- the previous administration -- would have been very responsive to it," Rove told "GMA's" Diane Sawyer. "There was a concern about were our NATO partners meeting their responsibility."

The Republican guru said he would advise Obama to listen to his commanders on the ground, "ask them tough questions, ask them to explain their positions," but "listen carefully to what they suggest be done to achieve the goals" outlined by the White House.

Rove has been forefront in his criticism of the current administration's policies, while defending his former employer's strategies.

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, Rove assailed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus' health care bill for levying new taxes and cutting Medicare. He also called the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office's estimates on revenues from the proposed excise tax "nonsense" and criticized Obama for not being clear and credible in selling his overhaul plan to the public.

"Ironically, the president who never stopped campaigning hasn't made the sale to Americans because he's forgotten a central rule of campaigning: Your arguments have to be clear and credible if voters are to believe them," Rove wrote. "His attempt to sell health care is neither. He still may win passage of a bill, but he's lost the public's enthusiastic backing."

Rove has also said that conservatives need a concise plan of their own to counter Democrats' legislation and "Obamacare."

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[Polar515]

Karl rove is such a piece of shit.

[MrDragon1968]

What a load of waffle. And is Rove seriously suggesting that Britain (a NATO coalition partner) has not been full filling its obligations in Afghanistan???

[UndercoverCracker]

This blonde bitch is retarded and obviously is trying to make it seem like he is saying one thing and means another!

[UndercoverCracker]

Umm youre a fucking crazy liberal...The real satans are Nancy Palosi and Harry Reid.

[theliberalparis]

Rove and Satan are brothers, I even wonder if Satan works for Karl Rove ?

[wervasdeferens]

Karl Rove, the ultimate Spin Doctor.

[norwoodmatt]

It's nice that she does not trouble herself to hide her schadenfreude over Rush.