Well, well it is with the dead-enders like Generals Patraeous and Odinero and Secretary Gates that Obama has to deal with on the issue of keeping a promise to the people or siding with them on Iraq.  Inter Press Service (h/t to Huffingtonpost.com) reports:

Petraeus, Gates and Odierno had hoped to sell Obama on a plan that they formulated in the final months of the Bush administration that aimed at getting around a key provision of the U.S.-Iraqi withdrawal agreement signed envisioned re-categorising large numbers of combat troops as support troops. That subterfuge was by the United States last November while ostensibly allowing Obama to deliver on his campaign promise.

There is only one president as Obama told the nation when he was president-elect.  There is only one commander-in-chief and his name is Barack Obama not George W. Bush.  What we, the people, have to do now is to call or write the White House in support of Obama's command to the nation's top military to have a withdrawl plan for 16 months of military forces from Iraq.  

The nation's military commanders and dead ender Gates should not be doing this:

There are indications that Petraeus and his allies in the military and the Pentagon, including Gen. Ray Odierno, now the top commander in Iraq, have already begun to try to pressure Obama to change his withdrawal policy.

A network of senior military officers is also reported to be preparing to support Petraeus and Odierno by mobilising public opinion against Obama's decision.

If the military and civilian commanders cannot follow an order then they should resign.  

From the report:

A White House staffer present at the meeting was quoted by the source as saying, "Petraeus made the mistake of thinking he was still dealing with George Bush instead of with Barack Obama."

Those commanders should remember a past general and president:  President Truman and General MacArthur.