I really don’t like this guy. Bush appointed him, but who recommended him to Bush?
” . . . 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. “
Sorry, but I don’t see Gates’ remarks as a “betrayal.”
Rather, he is saying what we are all thinking: what our troops have accomplished is “quite extraordinary,” BUT that the long-term is what matters, and that long-term outlook is tenuous because we have an idiot in the White House who is turning his back on Iraq.
Remember Vietnam.
Even when Bush appointed Gates, it was noted he was a moderate from academia... or something fishy.
Remember, it was when Bush was in deep shit and needed to appease Moderate Repubs and Dems.
Gates is a whore, who will say anything to prop up whoever is paying his salary.
To put the WMD question another way. Suppose after they had killed the environmental terrorist yesterday, they had found that his “guns” were squirt guns, and his propane tanks empty, and his other bombs mere props.
Would our response to be say that employing the police was a waste of time, and those who ordered it should be replaced because they wasted our time and acted on bad intelligence? Would the SWAT team actions be considered “not worth it”?