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2008-12-03 Home Front: Politix

Gates softens opposition to 16-month Iraq timetable

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Posted by Steve White 2008-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Surrendering a significant US military presence in Iraq, to include rights for action against regional adversaries, would be probably the greatest strategic blunder in US history. Not to mention a betrayal (of dead Americans and allied Iraqis) comparable to the abandonment of S. Vietnam.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-12-03 02:48|| 2008-12-03 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 I know a 2 Iraq tour friend of mine will not be happy to see all his hard work and sacrifice pissed on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-12-03 16:20|| 2008-12-03 16:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Gates is a CIA chameleon. But I can't imagine Petraeus will let this go down without a peep if he thinks it a bad idea.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-12-03 16:46|| 2008-12-03 16:46|| Front Page Top

#4 The One wants to end the $ 12B per month drain on the budget that the Iraq war is causing. Gates is a RINO. A man who comes to us from the Central Intelligence buraucracy. He has no military background or foundation. He who will turn on General Petraeus and the military as will The One when the time is right.

Excerpt from The Failure Factory:

Even in May 2008, when the pressure led Obama to equivocate somewhat (he said, for instance, that he wasn't sure "Ahmadinejad is the right person to meet with right now") - featured prominately on the Obama campaign's website - proudly and unabiguously declared, "Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidentual diplomacy with Iran without precoditions" (emphasis added). But the same month Obama received support from a seemingly unlikely source: President Bush's defense secretary, Robert M. Gates. On May 14, Gates told a reporter that he favored the conciliatory approach to Iran expoused by liberal New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman - an approach that happened to run counter to the administration's stated position. We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage with respect to the Iranians and then sit down and talk with them." Gates said. The defense secretary explicitly proposed making consessions to Ahmadinejad's radical regime.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-03 18:48|| 2008-12-03 18:48|| Front Page Top

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