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Pentagon Officials Are Enjoying Newfound Love Affair With President-Elect O
2008-12-01 02:37:00 Love Affair Grows Even Strong With The Hawkish Sir Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Officially Named As Obama-”O” Biden Secretary Of State… In reference to our Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman, Admiral Michael Mullen’s “official gushing” after his first meeting with... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Robert Gates defendió la tenencia de material nuclear como herramienta disu
2008-06-10 13:07:00 El Secretario de Estado estadounidense, Robert Gates defendió la tenencia de material nuclear como herramienta disuasiva, ante el escenario que Rusia se está armando, y Estados Unidos necesita de misiles como herramienta de disuasión. Ahora la pregunta es ¿Por qué los iraníes tampoco pueden?
By: La Página
The Results of Military Investigation into 4 Nuclear Fuses
2008-06-06 05:33:00 Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the findings of the report regarding the Taiwan shipments Thursday and said there has been an erosion of performance standards and there are systemic weaknesses in the Air Force’s nuclear arsenal program. As a result Gates said he consulted with the president and asked Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne the ...
Secretary Robert Gates Air University VIDEO
2008-04-23 03:22:00 Gates Urges Unconventional Thinkers to Address Unconventional Challenges By Donna Miles American Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, April 21, 2008 ? Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today challenged military officers to become forward thinkers with the courage to advance new approaches needed to confront current and emerging threats.?An unconventional era of warfare requires unconventional thinkers,? Gates told Air War College students at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.He challenged the officers to think outside the box to help the military adapt to a constantly changing strategic environment characterized by persistent conflict.While addressing an Air Force audience, Gates? challenge applies militarywide.?For the kinds of challenges America will face, the armed forces will need principled, creative, reform-minded leaders,? he said.Bucking convention isn?t easy, Gates conceded. ?Virtually every institution is organized in a way to stifle out-of-the-box thinking,? he said.Ideas that break...
Robert Gates Contracts Foot In Mouth Disease
2008-01-17 18:35:00 OK, that’s enough of that. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is setting a world record in the 1600m back pedal race today. He needs to work off all those calories after jamming his foot in his mouth. From CBC: Gates held a news conference a day after his interview with the Los Angeles Times caused an ...
Counter Coup?
2007-12-06 03:24:00 I suggested here from the get go that Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates was responsible for the release of the Iran NIE. Well Andrew Sullivan seems to agree And although it was a Democratic victory, it may help salvage something for the Bush administration's legacy in the Middle East. And that is the deeper point. No single party in our polity can claim credit for all of this. The course adjustment was a function of different entities fighting one another, reacting to events and facts, and thereby forging a more sensible war policy. What no single entity wanted came eventually to pass. It's shaping up to be a text-book lesson in the virtues of separating powers. Dictatorships cannot do this in wartime, which is why they often lose; neither can unchecked executives in democracies. But it's a good thing.The key players will only emerge definitively with the judgment of history. But my roster of those who helped get us back toward a rational war-policy would put Bob Gates and David ...
Has the administration been quietly overthrown?
2007-12-05 21:46:00 The Agonist - always a great place for thoughtful analysis - has an interesting piece suggesting that Dubya and The Dick may have lost control over their own machine. If so, it’s good news. A number of political observers have taken note of a momentous event in the U.S. government ? a counter-coup that overthrew the Dick Cheney/neocon cabal that has been running U.S. foreign policy (if not the entire U.S. government). Juan Cole has cited Admiral William Fallon, head of Centcom, and Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as two key players who stymied efforts earlier this year by Dick Cheney to accelerate the military build-up off the coast of Iran. Andrew Sullivan in a blog entry called The System is Working credits Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for restoring some sanity to the Defense Department, though he also notes that without the Democratic victory in the 2006 elections Bush would never have been forced to jettison Rumsfeld. Read the rest here.
Robert Gates: The ‘Anti-Rumsfeld’
2007-12-05 17:01:00 newsweek.com: Late this summer, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates traveled to the Middle East, to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. At each stop, high-ranking Arab officials anxiously asked him: was the United States preparing to attack Iran? Gates reassured them all that the United States had no plans to do so, at least any time soon. He wasn’t dramatic about it, says a Defense Department official who accompanied Gates on the trip but declined to be identified discussing secret talks. “He didn’t grab anyone’s arm and say, ‘I’ve got Cheney under control, wink, wink’,” says this official. But Gates was low-key, straightforward, steadying—calming, even soothing in a dry and matter-of-fact way. A little later, at the end of September, Gates met with the Democratic Senate Policy Committee (something his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, would never do). One of the senators nervously asked if the Bush administ...
By: Thought-Blender
Who's the big dog?
2007-12-04 00:30:00 I seem to have personally survived the duo of Pacific typhoons the battered the Pacific Northwest. I did experience a short power outage but that's all. There is a lot of news today but perhaps the biggest is the release of a year old National Intelligence Estimate.U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago that Tehran was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear bomb.Now it's easy to see why Cheney, Bush and DNI Mike McConnell didn't want it released - if proves that once again they were lying in order to push their war agenda. This will make it extremely difficult for the psychopaths in the administration to attack Iran.Kevin Drum asks a very good question; WHY WAS THE NIE RELEASED? is the administration did not want it released. All I've got is speculation on the second question, but here i...
Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates Blasts NATO For Afghan Failure
2007-10-26 23:37:00 Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, sharply criticized NATO army chiefs for failure on the part of the European Union to make a substantial commitment to winning the war in Afghanistan. “In Afghanistan, a handful of allies are paying the price and bearing the burden. The failure to meet commitments puts the Afghan mission– and with ...
Gates meets Turkey?s defence chief amid Iraq incursion fears
2007-10-22 17:35:00 US Defence Secretary Robert Gates held talks here Sunday with his Turkish counterpart as tension mounted between the two nations over Ankara’s plans for possible attacks on Kurdish rebels in Iraq. Gates urged Turkey to obtain precise information on the location of the separatist rebels before launching any military incursion into northern Iraq. “The key ...
By: The Hot Joints
War Without End, Amen: The Sanguinary Vision of Robert Gates
2007-10-13 20:24:00 by Chris Floyd There are actually some quarters where Pentagon honcho Robert Gates is considered a moderate of some kind, one of the few sensible, responsible figures in the Bush Administration able to restrain – or at least moderate – the raging-bull belligerence of Dick Cheney and his crew. This has always been a curious reputation for a man who has spent most of his career hip-deep in militarist skullduggery, as Robert Parry, among others, has amply demonstrated. (Here and here, for example.) But in such desperate and degraded times as these, it's only natural to clutch at the slightest straw of hope that someone, somewhere, will stand between us and the worst excesses of our masters, as we noted here earlier. (In fact, I'm so old that I can remember all the way back to the year 2000, when Cheney himself was regarded by the peddlers of conventional wisdom as a sensible, responsible figure, a "safe pair of hands" who would restrain the coltish an...
Pentagon, Robert Gates ask for billions more for Iraq and Afghanistan
2007-09-26 21:00:00 Today U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (you know, the guy that took over after Donald Rumsfeld slinked off with his tail between his legs) asked Congress for almost $190 billion more for spending in the Iraq War & Afghanistan.
Gates vows relentless pursuit of al-Qaeda leaders
2007-09-11 18:41:00 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates vowed Tuesday on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks to relentlessly hunt down Al-Qaeda leaders amid new warnings of a heightened threat of attack. Gates joined relatives and dignitaries in a moment of silence at the time and place where a hijacked American Airlines jet slammed into the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Robert Gates Says Extended Tours Unlikely
2007-06-21 20:09:00 On Thursday Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that extending deployments of U.S. troops now in Iraq beyond the current 15 months was only a "worst-case scenario" and that he didn't anticipate it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Iraq War Blog
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. in-depth VIDEO PODCAST
2007-03-15 01:25:00 The Pentagon Channel's new program, “Icon,†conducted an exclusive interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Icon takes an in-depth look at iconic figures in the U.S. military and Department of Defense. STREAMING AUDIO Of this Article, PODCAST OF THIS ARTICLE, FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT PDF Gates Reflects on Leadership, Troop Support, By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA. American Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, March 13, 2007 – Beyond making budget and administrative decisions, leadership is about setting a tone of integrity and caring, and working for lasting change, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.In an interview with the Pentagon Channel, Gates, who took office in December, said he brought his leadership style from the Central Intelligence Agency and Texas A&M University to the Defense Department, focusing on including established professionals in the organization in decision-making processes.“It seems to me it’s up to the leader to set the goal, but then to...
Robert Gates, Head of Pentagon, Secretary of Defense
2006-12-19 22:28:00 Yesterday Robert Gates was sworn in as George Bush's newly appointed Secretary of Defense, replacing the abdicated "Herr" a.k.a. "Get Outta Dodge" Rumsfeld-. As experience Gates has a resume glistening with even CIA Chief experience. He is lauded by Democrats and Republicans alike. But the way he spoke just after his initiation ceremony gala (CHA-CHING! That's YOUR money!), I think he seems but another madman. He said (USA Today 12-19-06 10A, after prefacing with the usual jargon about wanting to "bring home our sons and daughters"...): &nbs-p;"...we simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East. Failure in Iraq at this juncture would be a calamity that would haunt our nation, impair our credibility, and endanger Americans for decades to come."WHAT NONSENSE is this? Coming from the new head of American defense? Let's see if we can't analyze these statements.What does he mean by saying we "cannot afford to fail"? ... |
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