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Gates is in battle with Cheney over war policy? Who's Bush, chopped liver?
Gates is in battle with Cheney over war policy? Who's Bush, chopped liver?
I’ve said for quite some time that we will not attack Iran, that we’ll have to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran in the foreseeable future. We do not have the will to take on Iran at this time.
I’m not sure that I’m accepting this report at face value.
And no doubt a Carter-ite.
Can’t we just hire the Russians to do it?
Hmmm. This doesn't seem to jibe with what General Petraeus has been saying lately about Iran.
http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-with.html
So Gates is encouraging mutiny in the ranks.
“Officials say Mr Gates’s strategy bore fruit when Admiral William Fallon, the head of US Central Command, charged with devising war plans for Iran, said last month that the “constant drumbeat of war” was not helpful.”
The same Admiral Fallon that tried to get Bush to NOT adopt the surge strategy offered by General Patraeus. With allies like that, it’s not saying much good about Gates.
Many military leaders worry more about the problems that may come from action than the problems that may accrue from inaction; too willing to hope for the best than to confront the worst head on. They lose wars.
Imagine the situation in Iraq 16 years ago, with Saddam on the ropes, Saddam not expecting a full scale invasion of Iraq, the Shia in open rebellion, tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers in the desert asking to be allowed to surrender, and the Iranian mullahs not have 15 more years of time for subversion in Iraq?
And who are Gates “foreign policy” friends - the “realists” Baker and Scowcroft.
And which situation in Iraq presented the most problems and the least hope - the one we were left with in 2003 by the Baker-Scowcroft realists that sought to avoid tackling the problems of there time in 1991 head on.
So, why should we not see what history tells us. Baker-Scowcroft-Gates seek to avoid the hard choices of their time, and leave conditions we pay for dearly later on. Unfortunately, later on, Iran WILL be better armed than was Saddam, and no one doubts that.
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Scotty always told Kirk that the engines couldn’t handle the strain.
Now there’s a reputable source.
Go Darth Cheney!
Sources?
2nd - How do they know?
3rd and most important - Maybe our guys are floating this concept...like a good cop/bad copy thing...which I like - keep up the GREAT work Gentlemen (Cheney & Gates)!
And we know this is true because ‘anonymous sources’ say so? Nope don’t believe a word spoken by ‘anonymous sources’ anymore. Won’t step forward and identify, shut up.