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Tam

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They were just talking about the new book coming out on FOX. I think it will be one to curl up with since Global warming hasn't quite worked out for North America. It was written by Robert Gates and his time in the Military

Obama thought things were going to get better for him in 2014. If what they say about this book is true I doubt his job approval ratings are going to go up any time soon. :wink:

Gates acknowledges forthrightly in “Duty” that he did not reveal his dismay. “I never confronted Obama directly over what I (as well as [Hillary] Clinton, [then-CIA Director Leon] Panetta, and others) saw as the president’s determination that the White House tightly control every aspect of national security policy and even operations. His White House was by far the most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost.”

It got so bad during internal debates over whether to intervene in Libya in 2011 that Gates says he felt compelled to deliver a “rant” because the White House staff was “talking about military options with the president without Defense being involved.”

Now if Gates is saying the White House had TIGHT FISTED CONTROL over National Security how in sam h*ll can anyone believe he did not know what was really going on in Benghazi? And if he had a tight fisted control on National Security does anyone really believe he was/is in the dark about every friggin thing that his Administration has done domestically including the spying and targeting done by the IRS? His White House is going to be scrambling to dodge the questions the media are going to be firing at them after reading this book by the way it sounds
 

Tam

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Another clip

According to Gates, Obama concluded, “ ‘If I believe I am being gamed . . .’ and left the sentence hanging there with the clear implication the consequences would be dire.”

Gates continues: “I was pretty upset myself. I thought implicitly accusing” Petraeus, and perhaps Mullen and Gates himself, “of gaming him in front of thirty people in the Situation Room was inappropriate, not to mention highly disrespectful of Petraeus. As I sat there, I thought: the president doesn’t trust his commander, can’t stand [Afghanistan President Hamid] Karzai, doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”
 

Tam

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He writes: “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”

How it looks POLITICALLY, that is all that matters to these two idiots. :mad:
 

Tam

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His second year with Obama proved as tough as the first. “For me, 2010 was a year of continued conflict and a couple of important White House breaches of faith,” he writes.

The first, he says, was Obama’s decision to seek the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward gays serving in the military. Though Gates says he supported the decision, there had been months and months of debate, with details still to work out. On one day’s notice, Obama informed Gates and Mullen that he would announce his request for a repeal of the law. Obama had “blindsided Admiral Mullen and me,” Gates writes.

Similarly, in a battle over defense spending, “I was extremely angry with President Obama,” Gates writes. “I felt he had breached faith with me . . . on the budget numbers.” As with “don’t ask, don’t tell,” “I felt that agreements with the Obama White House were good for only as long as they were politically convenient.”


How the h*ll can a Military be run on the wims of a POLITICALLY MOTIVATED commandor ? Needs a boast in the polls, give the gay community what they want to hell with what it is going to do to moral in the Military. :roll: This is why you can not put a INCOMPETENT INEXPERIENCED COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WITH A HUGE EGO IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING LET ALONE THE US MILITARY :mad: .
 

hypocritexposer

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I my memory serves, there used to be quite a few on Ranchers that criticized Bush for not listening to "the military folks"

where is their criticism of the President now?
 

Traveler

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Will be interesting to see how Hitlery tries to distance herself from the Obama train wrecks once the campaign gets heated.
 
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