Why did Obama keep this idiot around again?
Leftover US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates learned some important lessons from Shrubya’s Iraqi Quicksand:
“The lessons learned with the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction and some of the other things that happened will make any future president very, very cautious about launching that kind of conflict or relying on intelligence,” Gates told PBS television in an interview.
Any future president is “going to ask a lot of very hard questions and I think that hurdle is much higher today than it was six or seven years ago,” he said.
Oh come on, lessons learned? Maybe he was an idiot, but anybody with half a brain didn’t believe for a second the attack on Iraq had anything to do with faulty intelligence and everything to do with Wrong-Wing hubris and idiocy.
The only ‘lesson learned’ is Republicans are douchebags and shouldn’t hold higher office. Oh and it’s probably time for Obama to start vetting Gates replacements.
Tags: gates, Iraq Occupation
March 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am
On the other hand, Gates is gunning for a bunch of big-ticket cold war holdover Pentagon boondoggles. Since we weren’t going to really truly be out of Iraq anyway before October, but the first big battle to wind down some of the DOD pork will be waged around then – it just might prove canny and progressive of Obama to have an unassailable right wing icon running interference with the “There goes Obama, soft on defense” crowd until the 2010 budget is, as it were, through the gates.
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Hmm good point.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Combat troops could be out of Iraq in 19 months. It’s going to take quite a while to get to Gay Old Party pork at that rate. Not to worry : I’m sure the Dems get some too.