Article

2010-10-08 Home Front: WoT

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-10-08 12:04|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Obama needed a Pentagon and national agency tutor. The war strategy is now set. Tutor no longer required. Have a nice, unfriended day General.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-08 13:10|| 2010-10-08 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Buy them, Use them, fire them.
So what else is new?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-10-08 13:49|| 2010-10-08 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 So, the ideologue suckups and sycophants who plan to bail this sinking ship soon for a K Street, lobbying-bandito job sunk him, huh.

Posted by anymouse 2010-10-08 14:49|| 2010-10-08 14:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Gates and Mullen are also leaving soon; looks like the top military geniuses surrounding Obumble will resemble bobble heads, each competing to bobble faster.
will this nonsense ever end?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-10-08 14:59|| 2010-10-08 14:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Mullen is a scheduled rotation as the CJCS; Gates is probably just fed up. Too bad as Gates is a good SecDef.

Posted by anymouse 2010-10-08 15:04|| 2010-10-08 15:04|| Front Page Top

#6 "Tom Donilon is a partner at the law firm of OMelveny & Myers and serves on the firms global governing committee.

Tom served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of State during the Clinton Administration."

Ah yes, the Clinton Administration. When America was sold out. Since when do law firms have "global governing" committees?

http://change.gov/learn/national_security_team_leads

Posted by Black Charlie Chinemble5313 2010-10-08 16:27|| 2010-10-08 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Reports say Woodward's book has Gates foreseeing Jones ouster and replacement by Donilon, whom Gates described as a disaster.

Posted by Mercutio 2010-10-08 16:58|| 2010-10-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Since the EPA had been renamed USEPA.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-08 18:15|| 2010-10-08 18:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Well he kinda peaked at Some Came Running, never could handle Whistle.

Posted by Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-10-08 19:05|| 2010-10-08 19:05|| Front Page Top

23:59 Anguper Hupomosing9418
23:59 gorb
23:44 AzCat
23:27 Blackbeard Flanter9341
23:19 Anguper Hupomosing9418
23:00 Skunky Glins****
22:55 trailing wife
22:52 JosephMendiola
22:17 trailing wife
22:13 JosephMendiola
22:12 Procopius2k
22:09 trailing wife
21:49 JosephMendiola
21:40 Xenophon
21:40 JosephMendiola
21:34 Water Modem
21:30 JosephMendiola
21:28 JosephMendiola
21:26 tu3031
21:19 Anonymoose
21:12 JosephMendiola
21:03 Frank G
21:02 JosephMendiola
21:02 Procopius2k