Dear Senator Obama,
In response to the issues you raise in your recent letter, I am sure you will agree that these matters are too serious and important to be left to a few soundbites in the media. I assume that details can be provided to the next meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s “Sub-Committee on Europe” which oversees NATO and our US combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
You do chair that sub-committe, don’t you? OH WAIT, I almost forgot, your sub-committee never meets!! It has never met since you became Chairman and apparently it will never meet. Let me say this, Mr. Obama: when you begin to do your job and actually earn the public salary paid to you by taxpayers, then I will try to find in my hectic schedule, in the midst of a war on multiple fronts, to come before your sub-committee and address your questions in a thorough and substantive way.
Until then, continue as the lightweight, dishonest, shameless Demagogue that you are!
Sincerely,
Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
[I can dream, can’t I???]
You nailed it. In fact it wouldn’t be surprising to find that Obama’s sub-committee has received the briefs on this subject but they sit in unopened folders.