I sure didn't get what you did out of Gates...I heard someone that said he hadn't spent time in Iraq...and almost everyone that asked a question of him....got an answer that HE said he READ IN THE NEWSPAPER!!
C'mon...do we really want a DOD during this tenuous time to get his knowledge of world conditions from the MSM????
I sure don't.
Mo1...thanks so much for your posts telling what was going on...Tuesday is one of my days for lunch with kaybugs..
I also have to pick her up from school today during this afternoon session...so I hope you post any good stuff then also.
I missed Hillary...but, when I got in the car, Rush's show was coming on..and he said he had gotten a lot of e-mails complaining about Warner's statements about how he wants Bush to work with the NEW Congress...blah, blah.
It was Rush's opinion that Warner is being clever in trying to put more of the responisibility on the Dems...but, I got home in time to see Warner and Levin's after hearing interviews...
and I have to say...I think Warner is NOT that clever. He really wants Pres. Bush to go with the ISG + the NEW dem Congress...ugh
and Levin was practically doing cartwheels, and basically saying that what HE heard was the Gates WOULD be bringing the troops home...(dems always hear what they want to hear).
Thanks again Mo...for all of your help today.
hehe, I think he will get briefed if confirmed.
Gates is an old CIA guy who rose through the ranks before being appointed CIA head by Bush Sr Gates was originally nominated by Reagan in '87 for the same post but he withdrew his name because of so-called Iran Contra.
Two points: 1)Gates knows how to get "knowledge of world conditions", above and beyond the MSM. 2)Gates knows how to get by a committee made up of rabid Democrats.