Posted on 09/02/2010 7:39:59 AM PDT by kristinn
As many Iraqis told me over the years, Saddam Hussein was a weapon of mass destruction.
His regime was a singular destablizing force in the Middle East. Saddam harbored, trained and funded international terrorists. He paid bounties to families of Palestinian suicide bombers. He sought to continue WMD programs. He routinely cheated on the ceasefire agreement from the 1991 war. He tries to assassinate a former U.S. president. He waged genocidal wars against his own people. He waged war on his neighbors.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates knows all this, yet he spits on the sacrifice of 4432 servicemen and women who paid the ultimate price to keep this nation safe by desposing Saddam and then working to secure Iraq so that it will no longer be a state sponsor of terrorism.
Here are Gates's word, spoken in Iraq yesterday, from the DOD website:
Press Availability with Secretary Gates from Ramadi, Iraq
Q Mr. Secretary, as you mark this change, do you believe the Iraq war was worth it?
SEC. GATES: Well, I've been asked that question a lot since December 2006. And I think that it really -- it really requires an historian's perspective in terms of what happens here in the long term. I would just pick up off of the remarks that I made at the American Legion. If we -- if Iraq ends up a democratic country, that is a constructive participant in international life, then I think looking back, although the cost of getting there would've been terrible, as I said yesterday, the potential for it being the core of significant change in this whole region as a democratic state, I think is hard to underestimate.
I think that where we are today, that our men and women in uniform believe we have accomplished something that makes the sacrifice and the bloodshed not to have been in vain, that we have accomplished -- that our men and women in uniform have accomplished something really quite extraordinary here.
How it all weighs in the balance over time, I think remains to be seen.
Q Mr. Secretary [inaudible] clarify that. And if -- does it require of Iraq to be a democratic state for this to be in the U.S. national security interest, this war to have benefited U.S. national security?
SEC. GATES: Well, the problem -- the problem with this war for, I think, many Americans is that the premise on which we justified going to war proved not to be valid -- that is, Saddam having weapons of mass destruction.
So when you start from that standpoint, then figuring out in retrospect how you deal with the war, even if the outcome is a good one from the standpoint of the United States, it will always be clouded by how it began. And so I think that this is one of the reasons why this war remains so controversial at home. But there is no -- there can be no disagreement, and I think as the president said in his speech, with what has been achieved here by our men and women in uniform.
“... He served as Deputy NSA to Kissinger, Brzenski, and Scowcroft. ... “
Thank you very much for the post and information.
I have read that Brzenski is KGB. I can’t confirm if that is true, but this list of operatives are Globalists all!
That explains a lot. Gates will sell out US for Globalist interests.
As a side note, Brzenski had one son working in Juan’s Presidential campaign, and another in The Usurper’s campaign. I suspect they coordinated Juan’s campaign capitulation at critical points, such as when he said “ ... I don’t understand the economy ... “
The NeoCons are globalists
The Realists are globalists
The Liberal Interventionists(Liberal Internationalists) are globalists.
The only ones are aren't globalists are the left wing pacifists and the right wing isolationists.
The NeoCons ran McCains campaign.
McCain campaigned on NeoCon Foreign Policies and Obama campaigned on Realist Foreign Policies.
Thanks for the informed information.
Excuse me now, while I go puke, cry, and then pray for our nation’s survival.
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