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2009-10-06 Home Front: Politix

Gates To Military: Shut Up About The War

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-06 09:36|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 asking for time and privacy for the president to come to a decision - an apparent message to the commanding U.S. general there who has pressed publicly for more American troops.

Yes of course, Barry needs....more privacy. You malcontents and non-believers may bring us those suggestions and recommendations in PRIVATE in order that we can ignore them PUBLICALY...right along with the escalating casualty figures.

Posted by Besoeker in Duitsland 2009-10-06 10:29|| 2009-10-06 10:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Barry needs....more privacy

Five times a day?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-10-06 11:36|| 2009-10-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "What is really interesting about this whole affair is the reversal of elite opinion. When leaks indicated that the some of the uniformed military were critical of the conduct of the Iraq war under George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, those critics were seen as necessarily speaking truth to power. David Ignatius of the Washington Post argued that the military needed a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who would push back against Rumsfeld and the Bush administrations policies in Iraq. The always entertaining Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wondered why Bush refused to take advice from his much more experienced and clear-headed uniformed officers. And one genius at the Huffington Post even called upon the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to relieve Bush as commander in chief for dereliction of duty. Only Bush hatred could get the lefty blogosphere to call for a military coup."

Mackubin Thomas Owens

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-10-06 13:44|| 2009-10-06 13:44|| Front Page Top

#4 IIUC CNN's BLITZER + CAFFERTY FILE > seems a couple of POTUS BAMMER's Advisors are telling him + SecDef Gates that unless the US commits more troops to AFPAK ala MCCHRYSTAL'S REQUEST, THE USA MAY BE FIGHTING IN AFPAK FOR ANUTHER 20 YEARS = CIRCA YEAR 2030, or thereabouts.

JUST IN TIME FOR COMET APOPHIS [2029/30-2036] + MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS SEEN ON THE MOON FROM EARTH = FUTURE GUAM, courtesy of future OWG-NWO + STARFLEET/EARTH-SPACE COMMAND???

THE SIMPSONS > CHIEF WIGGUMS > THATS ONE HELL OF A [future] OOOOOOOPPPPPPSSSIES, LOU!

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