Gates Slams Biden in Memoir, Reveals He Nearly Quit

Time ^ | Jan. 07, 2014 | Zeke J Miller

[12th_Monkey]

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has harsh words for Vice President Joe Biden’s foreign policy judgement in his soon-to-be-released memoir.

According to the New York Times, which obtained an early copy of the memoir, Gates calls Biden “a man of integrity,” but questions his record. “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” Gates writes, according to the Times.

Gates, the only high-level holdover from the Bush administration to the President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, reveals he nearly quit his post in September 2009 while Obama reviewed his Afghanistan strategy. According to the Times, Gates writes he was “deeply uneasy with the Obama White House’s lack of appreciation — from the top down — of the uncertainties and unpredictability of war…I came closer to resigning that day than at any other time in my tenure, though no one knew it.”

The Washington Post quotes a separate exchange in the book between Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where they discussed their opposition to the 2007 Iraq surge in the context of politics. “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.”

[12th_Monkey]

“He senses a sea change in public perceptions and as a survivor he is jockeying for the best lifeboat seat before the arrival of the rogue wave.”

Thats a great sentance...because it’s true

[12th_Monkey]

no way....Bone er and I ain’t on speaking terms.

[JDoutrider]

Wouldn’t want to be Gates on Judgement Day. His silence in the face of the evil communist take over will doom his soul forever to hell...

[RichInOC]

The more I hear about Barry’s VP nominee, the more I like McCain’s.

[xrmusn]

In the words of George Carlin:

“Yeah, he’s an a**hole. But a well meaning, a**hole.”
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

OR

I won’t go as far as to call him a ‘Ba—ard’,

BUT

I will give you proof his parents never married.

[SueRae]

Gates was the only adult in that room. How he stayed as long as he did..can only be explained by a strong sense of duty and love of country. I admire the man. His is a book I want.

[matginzac]

Exactly...
Too little, too late, Billy boy...
You sat back and watched the circus and didn’t do a damn thing...
You can take your book and shove it.

[matginzac]

Whoa, I LOVE Saul!
Saul could run rings around Bidet anytime....

[bigdaddy45]

Apparently you have insight into the Almighty’s criteria for afterlife that the rest of us don’t.

[SkyPilot]

"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."

Well, well, well. Robert Gates is surprised that Obama gutted the military by over $300 Billion in 2008 to divert to his "stimulus", again by another $487 Billion in 2011, and again by $650 Billion due to Sequestration in 2013? And he was also surprised that Obama (almost certainly a homosexual himself and a notorious member of Chicago's infamous "Down Low" club) fast tracked homosexuality in the military?

Today, we are dealing with the consequences of this sin and tragedy, and Robert Gates is partly to blame. This morning, the DoD announced Millions in new spending for homosexual "spouses" benefits, while the DoD is planning on gutting military TRICARE, and pensions for the disabled and widows have already been cut. Military readiness is in a shambles, and morale is in the toilet.

[12th_Monkey]

considering the overall attitude of the Obama admin, your probably right.

[JDoutrider]

Yeah, your right... I’ve sent more than my fair share of communists to hell.

Read all about it in my profile...

[bmwcyle]

From a man who has kissed up to the Democrats for years.

[bigdaddy45]

Good for you sparky!! Want a cookie?

[Huaynero]

why not a John Wayne cracker?