How Will the New Gates Book Affect Obama/Hillary/Et Al?

It get's even worse for thumbs.

When asked about Biden, Gates also said he would also do well in the role [president].

"I suppose to be even-handed I would have to say I suppose he would," he said.

 

Strange off topic situation but it's more about blue collar working class folks who struggle to make ends meet. The point being that the struggle is so profound that all they have time and energy for are the earthy tools of their work (iron and rope).

It's working man's anthem. It is far from being about suicide.

 

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the two minutes or so beginning ~5:30 are particularly damning.

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This is pure bull****... Trying to play the veteran sympathy card to create this false strawman where Obama does not care about the troops. He was handed a war that he knew that went on way too long but had no quick exit strategy. He was not happy about still being in Afghanistan, however he knew that he just couldn't uproot all forces and leave. And this somehow translates into "he wasn't committed to our troops."

Those parents who were interviewed probably hated Obama even before and are now using their dead son as a way to propagate their hate. Disgusting. Your son didn't die because of Obama. I'm not placing blame for Obama for my leg almost being blown up and 17 of my brothers dying.

 

I'm glad Bush was so passionate about the wars he started.

 

The key thing to take from that was when he said "People will take from this book what they want." It sounds like his book is very even handed and while he does criticize the Obama Admin. he also has plenty of praise for it too.

 

mussolini made the trains run on time.

 

Seriously, what is the fascination with right wingers comparing Obama to World War 2 era dictators?

 

Another thing I would like to add. These people are crazy. When they attack the "winning the hearts and minds" strategy that even Bush believed in I knew they were way past the point of sanity. What other option did you have in Afghanistan? Level the entire nation? These people are using their son's death as political points. Disgusting.

 

I like that they've branched out to Il Duce now! I mean, he had really short hair... kind of like Obama (?)

 

In praise of Obama, Gates calls the president's decision to order Navy SEALs to raid a house in Pakistan believed to be the hiding place of Osama bin Laden "one of the most courageous decisions I had ever witnessed in the White House."

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/07/605...#storylink=cpy

 

how did he feel about the rush to claim credit and expose details of the mission?

 

In praise of Obama, Gates calls the president's decision to order Navy SEALs to raid a house in Pakistan believed to be the hiding place of Osama bin Laden "one of the most courageous decisions I had ever witnessed in the White House."

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/01/07/605...#storylink=cpy

 

Spoiler

 

how indeed?

How can a commander in good conscience send troops on a mission he doesn’t believe in, a mission from which he knows some will never return?​

and this:

By early 2011, writes former defense secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own [Afghanistan] strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his.”

Not his? America is at war and he’s America’s commander in chief.​

 

meh, I saw Gates on The Daily Show. He was more about systemic problems, accountability in the military and bureaucracy and the unworkable nature of a partisan Congress. He seemed most proud of firing a bunch of Generals.

 

It won't affect the election at all because most people who vote are total morons who don't care about crap like this.

 

like what? it's bipartisan criticism. unless you throw out all the incumbents and elect pragmatist independents it's just the state we live in.