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Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates: Israel an ungrateful ally
Christians United for Israel ^ | September 6, 2011

Posted on 09/06/2011 7:53:06 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

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To: ilovesarah2012

Fifty-plus years of islamist propaganda is apparently very close to achieving its objective...


21 posted on 09/06/2011 8:06:25 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“Gates believes Netanyahu’s government has offered the Obama administration “nothing in return” for its generous security aid,”

Like Pakistan has. LOL

Gates is a fool trying to make points with his new masters.

I’m to the point that maybe Israel should just strike out on their own and make what alliances they can instead of depending on the political elite here.

We’ll be far more than sorry to lose Israel as an ally in that miserable part of the world. The only democracy there and we dump on them.


22 posted on 09/06/2011 8:08:10 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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To: fishtank

Wow. He’s even worse than I thought.


23 posted on 09/06/2011 8:08:10 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012 (PC)
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To: fishtank

So then his opinions on Israel are just like his opinions on averything else — wrong!


24 posted on 09/06/2011 8:09:58 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: ilovesarah2012
What kind of gratitude is he looking for, exactly?

An honorable suicide?

25 posted on 09/06/2011 8:11:51 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Grateful to Gates and the O admin means you are only grateful if you succumb to their demands.

You can’t say, thank you for the help. Tain’t enough. You must give them what they want to be considered grateful.


26 posted on 09/06/2011 8:12:22 AM PDT by dforest
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To: JudgemAll

gates was one pi$$ poor excuse for a general... just like weasley clark.

LLS


27 posted on 09/06/2011 8:12:22 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Certified Al Palin Hobbit Terrorist)
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To: RatRipper

Am I the only conservative growing weary of our American youth dying, our taxes expended, and our nation going further into debt to unilaterally help and defend many other nations that have never spent a single dime or lost one serviceman in defense of the USA?

There are dozens of countries in this category and it is always the now broke Uncle Sam that is still on the giving end. You know what they call people who go broke giving and never getting - saps?

Until these other nations (and I include Israel and many more) that are much better off per capita fiscally than the USA start paying and reimbursing us, I’m in favor of shutting off the spigot of aid and defense and replenishing our own coffers for a change.


28 posted on 09/06/2011 8:16:22 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

“Grateful allies” don’t conduct espionage (as Israel does) on their “friends.”


29 posted on 09/06/2011 8:16:33 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Gaffer
Any man, whether appointed by W in some capacity or not, and held on with the approval of the Obama administration is a traitor to this country as far as I am concerned.

DITTO!!! AND TO SEE HIM BETRAYING ISRAEL LIKE THIS - WELL IT PROVES HE'S NOT A CHRISTIAN EITHER!

30 posted on 09/06/2011 8:16:46 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: Captain Kirk

Ummm...all countries conduct espionage on all other countries. We don’t depend on press releases to determine what the Brits are up to...and Israel would be STUPID to trust anyone with their survival.


31 posted on 09/06/2011 8:18:53 AM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: exit82
Netanyahu spoke the truth to power and embarassed your butt boy Obama.

BTT

32 posted on 09/06/2011 8:19:37 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Mr Rogers
Ummm...all countries conduct espionage on all other countries

You're backing up my case. You provide all the more reason to stop this nonsensical talk about Israel being a "grateful" and "loyal" friend. There is nothing "special" about our relationship in that regard. Like all other countries, it would sell us down the river in a second, if it thought it would provide any benefit.

33 posted on 09/06/2011 8:24:18 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: ilovesarah2012

FU Bobby boy. Israel has a right to exist and have a right to not be thrown under the bus by the elite.


34 posted on 09/06/2011 8:25:42 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: CondorFlight

And don’t forget the newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan...That should keep the southern flank under observation...


35 posted on 09/06/2011 8:26:06 AM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: ilovesarah2012
No surprise. All the bushies are revealing their deep bias against Jews. Baker, Scrowcroft, Powell, Rice, Gates, Bush Sr, G.W... As the news continues to trickle out of their shady back door dealings with Israel over the past 20 years, it is no wonder that the G-d of Israel is allowing this nation to receive the curses that it so richly deserves... Obama has only accelerated the decline (Gen 12:3).

If Robert Gates only knew: being Israel's semi-ally over the past 60 years has been the single greatest reason for America's world position. We should be thanking Israel for permitting us to support them.
36 posted on 09/06/2011 8:26:35 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: ilovesarah2012

I have NEVER been impressed with GATES. He’s a political hack, nothing more.


37 posted on 09/06/2011 8:28:15 AM PDT by cblue55 (It's either America, or Obama. It cannot be both!)
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To: apoliticalone
I'd rather be in Somalia than Libya. I'd rather be in Darfur than Egypt. I'd rather be in Cuba than Germany. I'd rather guard the border with Mexico than the South Korean border with North Korea.
38 posted on 09/06/2011 8:28:27 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: CondorFlight
True, what are we getting for all the fuel and man hours and weapons wasted in Libya, the biggest damn bet wetters in the EU, France and Britain never pay for jack she**.
39 posted on 09/06/2011 8:29:05 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I have zero respect for Gates after what he allowed obama to do to the military.


40 posted on 09/06/2011 8:29:34 AM PDT by jersey117
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