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Top 10 Revelations From Robert Gates’s Memoir
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 7, 2014 | Dion Nissenbaum

Posted on 01/08/2014 7:06:51 AM PST by Zakeet

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To: Buckeye McFrog
Obama's Peeps have never been her friends, and now feel that the White House is the exclusive domain of "our people". They won't go down without a fight. (and for this reason, I suspect the Dems will have great difficulty nominating non-minorities in the future)

You have only to look at the chain of mayors in the major cities to see that. Philadelphia, for one example. Now that it is in complete, utter and nearly irredeemable decay, Detroit has once again elected a Europe-descended mayor. If he manages to fix it up, they will go right back to their Democrat ways.

41 posted on 01/08/2014 10:07:40 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Chewbarkah
I suspect that ego led him to believe two things: inaccurately, that HE could somehow steer the administration to do the right thing some of the time; and, accurately, that if he didn’t take the job, someone much worse for the country would (Barbara Boxer perhaps?).

I'm no fan of Gates, either, and we can thank him for attacking DADT, among other things. But is it possible he was aware of the incompetence and was genuinely concerned for the fate of the soldiers in theater? Obama's watch has seen twice as many U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan than during Bush's two terms, in no small part because of his cabal's determination to lose through suicidal ROE's.

42 posted on 01/08/2014 10:12:54 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: 7thson
You are entitled to your opinion but I just don't buy it.

Don't buy what? What he said they did, or the way he handled it? There's a difference. Even if this is the best he could do, at least he is saying something now. He is perhaps the most experienced senior official who has come forward. Someone has to take a finger out of the dam.

43 posted on 01/08/2014 10:18:38 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: what's up

Remember “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?

Gates and Hillary have one thing in common: they both detest Obama and his minions. That’s all.


44 posted on 01/08/2014 10:22:44 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah
If that's the case, it's pretty hypocritical of him to sit there day in and day out as BHO undercut him. If he was such a patriot, why didn't he expose this in time to impact the 2012 election? Minimally, he's been pretty self-serving.

...he knew full well that Obama hates the military and would appoint an incompetent if he left.

He did.

45 posted on 01/08/2014 10:27:09 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Albion Wilde

She has been in it up to her neck since high school. Alinsky was her mentor. Expect worse, not better.


You’re exactly right. Hitlery would “fine tune” the destruction of our country.


46 posted on 01/08/2014 10:55:53 AM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: kjam22; Yaelle

The Won is just a marionette, dancing on the strings of whoever the barbarians are on the other end of his BlackBerry.


47 posted on 01/08/2014 2:48:45 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Gates Expresses Contempt for VP Biden: as a man who “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”Mr. Gates said he opposed Mr. Biden’s proposed limited strategy in Afghanistan to focus on counter-terrorism: “Whac-A-Mole hits on Taliban leaders weren’t a long term strategy,” Gates writes.

"Obama loved it when I did this to him. That's how I got the VP nod."

48 posted on 01/08/2014 3:14:13 PM PST by Liz
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To: 7thson

The Democrat nominee will go after single payer health care reform and the left will love whoever spouts this “reform.”


49 posted on 01/09/2014 7:29:11 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: 7thson

The Democrat nominee will go after single payer health care reform and the left will love whoever spouts this “reform.”


50 posted on 01/09/2014 7:38:13 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Zakeet

The more I read of this book from Gates, the less I respect him...and I never thought very highly of him to begin with. Yes, he’s saying things we already know about the Child King, but he enabled that brat.


51 posted on 01/09/2014 7:45:01 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Jedidah

Even that magnificent bastard, Karl Rove agrees with me.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/01/12/Rove-Gates-waited-Untill-After-Election-on-memoir-to-avoid-hurting-Obama

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said on “Fox News Sunday”:

“Some Gates insiders have told me this book was essentially ready before the 2012 election. Gates made a deliberate decision to delay his publication until well after the election so as not to have the incendiary charges intrude into the election, I think that is a statement about his character.”


52 posted on 01/13/2014 6:17:50 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Zakeet

Day late and a dollar short.


53 posted on 01/13/2014 6:19:43 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: kjam22
I wonder who the Left Left would run against her? Maxine Waters? Pelosi? Reid? Weiner?

Fauxcahontas.

54 posted on 01/13/2014 6:27:56 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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