[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.

[Mr Rogers]

Gates was a disgusting, self-serving SecDef. However, he may be right about Obama...

[Mr Rogers]

Here is a quote via NRO:

“Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/367797/gates-hillary-obama-admitted-they-opposed-surge-political-reasons-alec-torres

What dismays me is that someone as high as Gates didn’t know it without being told...

[hinckley buzzard]

Gates is/was a career Washington nonentity. He survived by keeping his head down and never engaging anyone in any contest he might lose. he is the official parallel to David Gergen, the only "consultant" who never had a defined opinion that couldn't be changed in the blink of an eye.