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2014-01-08 Government

Gates takes a swing at the Champ, Biden, and the Beast.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 How soon does Gates get audited by the IRS?

Posted by Raj 2014-01-08 01:16|| 2014-01-08 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 IRS Clock started ticking when the book went into publication, not to mention the FBI which will investigate Gates for leaking "classified information", over which the big O has full control....

Posted by Beldar Bucket 2014-01-08 01:24|| 2014-01-08 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Books signings at Tyson's Corners, teevee interviews, talk shows, high-fives from former Klingon colleagues [less John Brennan], plus a sound night's sleep....... what's not to like.

Sorry Champ, "you want a friend in D.C., buy a dog."

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 04:01|| 2014-01-08 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Time Swampland: Gates slam Biden in Memoir, Reveals he nearly quit.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 05:07|| 2014-01-08 05:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Who is the Beast?

Posted by JFM 2014-01-08 05:26|| 2014-01-08 05:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Hillary? BTW, what did Hillary did in her own life except marrying the right guy and look the other side while he was philandering? What where the merits or actions who got her to become a Secretary of State?

Posted by JFM 2014-01-08 05:29|| 2014-01-08 05:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Hillary = The Beast! Hildabeast, has a ring to it.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2014-01-08 06:08|| 2014-01-08 06:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Despite Gates taking a swing, I read an article in the newspaper this a.m. by Julie Pace AP WH correspondent which stated in reference to Champ's exit from Afghanistan: "That (the exit) would mirror the U.S. exit from Iraq, the other unpopular war Obama inherited." Unfortunately, there are many still trumpeting the ONE.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-01-08 09:42|| 2014-01-08 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 JFM, Hillary negotiated the kickbacks and non-inspection of diplomatic air cargo for State when she ran the travel office.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-01-08 09:51|| 2014-01-08 09:51|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree JohnQC. Note the time line of his career change announcements and appointments as they relate to upcoming 2010 Presidential election.

>[Wik] Gates announced in August 2010 that he planned to retire in 2011, and President Barack Obama announced in April 2011 that he would be replaced by CIA director Leon Panetta.

Coincidence possibly, but I'm not buying the under-the-bus toss, or the book. I'm waiting to hear what Ralph Peters has to say.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 10:01|| 2014-01-08 10:01|| Front Page Top

#11 WSJ - The Quiet Fury of Robert Gates.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-08 11:24|| 2014-01-08 11:24|| Front Page Top

#12 If, as Gates alleges, Obama does not believe in this war then it is truly despicable of him to continue with it and to continue sending our troops into harm's way. I find it easy to believe the allegation and easy to believe that it's yet another example of politicians having no concern whatsoever for the men and women who serve.

But I can't let Gates off the hook either. It sounds as though he truly believes in nation building in a backwards hell hole like Afghanistan. All that blood and treasure sacrificed for a mission that is bound to fail and Gates thinks it's a good idea? Maybe I should read the book before I say this but it sounds to me like they're two sides of a bad penny.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-01-08 12:01|| 2014-01-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Its kinda humorous how the slobbering press is frantically circling the wagons around Obama and Clinton and at the same time theyre doing a collective shoulder shrug at the Biden comments.

Posted by DepotGuy 2014-01-08 21:03|| 2014-01-08 21:03|| Front Page Top

#14 See also FREEREPUBLIC, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Arab News = AFP] OBAMA DIDN'T BELIEVE HIS OWN STRATEGY.

Iff Gates is to be believed, NOT IN ANYTHING ELSE EVEN IFF HE HIMSELF CAME UP WID IT - ALL THE BAMMER WANTS IS "TO GET OUT", IIUC TO NOT BE INVOLVED ANDOR HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING.

IOW, SOMEONE(S) ELSE NOT-THE-BAMMER ALWAYS HAS TO BE SACRIFICED OR HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE BAMMER'S ACTIONS OR LACK OF SAME, AKA "THROWN UNDER THE BUS"???

Once again, WINNER = RISING IRAN [Nuclear Islam = OWG Nuclear Caliphate; + RISING CHINA [US contained or isolated to EASTPAC = Hawaii, US West Coast only by 2020].

E.G. WAFF > COMMIE NAVY CTAHCES THE BRITISH WID THEIR PANTS DOWN | [Daily Mail.UK] ROYAL NAVY SCRAMBLES [NT AAD] DESTROYER TO CHALLENGE RUSSIAN WARSHIP OFF BRITSH COAST (IT TOOK 24 HOURS TO MAKE 600-MILE JOURNEY FROM PORTSMOUTH [UK] BASE - WAS PUTIN TESTING OUR RESPONSE TIME?)

Welcome to OWG Globalism + Euro-Socialism.

UK NAVY = USDOD-NAVY = YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY SUPER-TECHY "DEATH STARS" AS YOU WANT, ITS NOT GONNA MEAN A THING TO A DEDICATED ENEMY(S) IFF ITS NOT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME WHEN ITS NEEDED.

THE ENEMY IS GONE, OR ONE ALREADY LOST THE BATTLE IFF NOT THE WAR, LONG BEFORE ONE'S MIL FORCES EVEN GETS THERE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-08 21:18|| 2014-01-08 21:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Peters? Why? He was wrong back in the day when I knew of him in MI in the 80s 90s (notably his book in that era Red Army was a collection of irrational howlers), wrong on the Iraq surge in 06 publicly opposing it,

His opinions and judgement are as likely to be right or utter crap.

And having served with him on TDY, I simply don't like or trust the man.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-01-08 22:55|| 2014-01-08 22:55|| Front Page Top

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