Posted on 04/03/2016 8:55:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he felt President Obama “double-crossed” him during his tenure over budget cuts to the Pentagon.
In a Fox News report Friday that explored the president’s approach to the military, Gates said Obama had promised him that there wouldn’t be any “significant changes” in the defense budget for a while.
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When asked by Fox whether Obama kept to his word, Gates replied, “Well I think that began to fray. ‘Fray’ may be too gentle a word.” According to the report, Gates was told to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the defense budget after already having slashed it.
“I guess I’d have to say I felt double-crossed,” Gates said. “After all those years in Washington, I was naïve.”
The former defense secretary added that he advised Obama to slow the cuts to the military because it would endanger U.S. troops.
“I think he acknowledged that what I was pitching at a minimum was, ‘The world doesn’t seem to be getting better. Before you head down a path of deep cuts in defense, why don’t you take it kind of slow,’ ” he said. “You know it was one of those things where I lost the argument.”
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Don't feel bad, dude. He's 'double-crossed' bigger fish than you...
The First Rapist and his wife, the Old Ugly Fat Cow come to mind...
Brings to mind Bill Clinton’s doublecross of the VA - during the time when Republicans had retaken the House and were making Clinton cut back on some of his spending, he planned to take a big chunk out of VA spending to avoid cuts in other areas - he called the head of the VA in and had a heart to heart with him, promising that he would return funds cut in the current year in the next budget to help keep things quiet - of course the cuts never came back - I’m always mystified why anyone who ever served in or had any interest in our military could call him/herself a Democrat.....
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