[plain talk]

Here is a quote I found interesting
“Obama echoed Gates’s comments in a July 10, 2010, interview for my book “Obama’s Wars.” The president said: “Bob Gates has, I think, served me extraordinarily well. And part of the reason is, you know, I’m not sure if he considers this an insult or a compliment, but he and I actually think a lot alike, in broad terms.””

[FlingWingFlyer]

The U.S. military’s worst enemy is the commie buffoons on Capitol Hill and Washington, D.C. They, their ‘lawyer’ pals and the ‘media’ in this country have killed more U.S. military men and women than all of America’s enemies.

[driftdiver]

I’m torn here, as I have really heard nothing good about gates or his judgement.

I do hope we see more of the supporting cast throwing in the towel.

[ScottinVA]

I trust the words of nobody who served even one microsecond in this regime. Gates should’ve stepped down on that dark, dreary day Obama took power.

[Doogle]

....he profess his “love” for the troops, but went along with the ODUNGO RoE....
....he writes about Generals saying two hour window to air lift the wounded was good enough, while HE wanted 1 hour.....BS....don’t know a general one who would say a wounded troop could “wait” an extra hour to be evacuated....
we’ve all heard of the “magic hour”

[SkyPilot]

"The first, he says, was Obama’s decision to seek the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gays serving in the military. Though Gates says he supported the decision, there had been months and months of debate, with details still to work out. On one day’s notice, Obama informed Gates and Mullen that he would announce his request for a repeal of the law. Obama had “blindsided Admiral Mullen and me,” Gates writes. Similarly, in a battle over defense spending, “I was extremely angry with President Obama,” Gates writes. “I felt he had breached faith with me . . . on the budget numbers.” As with “don’t ask, don’t tell,” “I felt that agreements with the Obama White House were good for only as long as they were politically convenient."

Well, well, well. Robert Gates is surprised that Obama gutted the military by over $300 Billion in 2008 to divert to his "stimulus", again by another $487 Billion in 2011, and again by $650 Billion due to Sequestration in 2013? And he was also surprised that Obama (almost certainly a homosexual himself and a notorious member of Chicago's infamous "Down Low" club) fast tracked homosexuality in the military?

Today, we are dealing with the consequences of this sin and tragedy, and Robert Gates is partly to blame. This morning, the DoD announced Millions in new spending for homosexual "spouses" benefits, while the DoD is planning on gutting military TRICARE, and pensions for the disabled and widows have already been cut. Military readiness is in a shambles, and morale is in the toilet.

[sean327]

Why in the hell didn’t Gates speak up then? He had a duty to do so. He failed. Gates was an idiot just as Rumsfeld was. Gates for not having his Generals backs, Rumsfeld for not listening to his. Good riddance to both, they were asshats.

[freepersup]

Gates criticism is too little too late. Where’s the book’s profit going? If it’s not all being donated to the Wounded Warriors Project, it’s blood money. Same goes for the military brass. Silence. Same goes for the churches and their incredible silence, all in an effort to keep their tax exempt status.

I quit a job over principles, and I needed the job as much as the next person. It required me to stand up to the intimidation of a trade union and one of it’s favorite sons by reporting serious safety violations to the management at a nuclear power plant, when no one else would. I wondered whether I might catch a stray bullet, have an untimely automobile accident, or a really big surprise starting my truck one last time.

[lentulusgracchus]

.... with White House aides facing off against four-star generals.

Morons versus ascended masters, and the morons won.