Comments on: Will the real Bob Gates please stand up? http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:49:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » Hagel: Gonzales to resign / Bush shifting Iraq strategy before year end. http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-261009 Donklephant » Blog Archive » Hagel: Gonzales to resign / Bush shifting Iraq strategy before year end. Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:19:50 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/#comment-261009 [...] Iraq The discussion segued into Iraq and comparisons to Vietnam, a topic I have explored on my blog from time to time. Hagel was most animated when talking about the damage done to our standing in the world, our force structure and the Army by the policies of this administration. He generally kept an even keel relaxing in the easy chair on the stage, but this topic got him going. This is where he sees a clear parallel to Vietnam and believes it will take years, and perhaps decades to undo the damage, as it did after Vietnam. He also offered some “inside baseball’ observations of an evolving administration strategy in Iraq. Pointing to continuing erosion of support in the Senate, the Petraeus Report next month, and trial balloons launched by SECDEF Robert Gates in a recent MTP interview, he sees the administration strategy in Iraq shifting by the end of the year. [...] [...] Iraq The discussion segued into Iraq and comparisons to Vietnam, a topic I have explored on my blog from time to time. Hagel was most animated when talking about the damage done to our standing in the world, our force structure and the Army by the policies of this administration. He generally kept an even keel relaxing in the easy chair on the stage, but this topic got him going. This is where he sees a clear parallel to Vietnam and believes it will take years, and perhaps decades to undo the damage, as it did after Vietnam. He also offered some “inside baseball’ observations of an evolving administration strategy in Iraq. Pointing to continuing erosion of support in the Senate, the Petraeus Report next month, and trial balloons launched by SECDEF Robert Gates in a recent MTP interview, he sees the administration strategy in Iraq shifting by the end of the year. [...]

]]> By: Divided We Stand United We Fall http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-260801 Divided We Stand United We Fall Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:54:09 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/#comment-260801 <strong>Notes on Panetta Institute Lecture with Chuck Hagel...</strong> That said, he offered some "inside baseball' perception of an evolving administration strategy in Iraq. Pointing to continuing erosion of support in the Senate, the Petraeus Report next month, and trial balloons launched by SECDEF Robert Gates in a r... Notes on Panetta Institute Lecture with Chuck Hagel…

That said, he offered some “inside baseball’ perception of an evolving administration strategy in Iraq. Pointing to continuing erosion of support in the Senate, the Petraeus Report next month, and trial balloons launched by SECDEF Robert Gates in a r…

]]> By: Reich Winger http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-244801 Reich Winger Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:32:19 +0000 http://blog.psaonline.org/2007/08/06/will-the-real-bob-gates-please-stand-up/#comment-244801 If David Isenberg thinks that Obama is "on the same page" with respect to Bush, Romney and Giuliani with respect to Osama bin Laden's continued sanctuary in Pakistan, then have I ever got some ocean-front property in Kansas to sell him! Cheap! Obama's statement — “If we had actionable intelligence about high-valued terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will” — is precisely and exactly what is going to propel him into the Oval Office. For that is precisely what Bush is too chicken to do, and what Romney and Giuliani — should they ever, God forbid, gain the Oval Office — would be too chicken to do as well! Wake up, Eisenberg! Neocons aren't patriotic, and they don't love America. They love multinational corporations and, at heart, are not neo-conservatives at all, but neo-fascists. And if you don't believe me, Eisenberg, then believe Ron Paul. If David Isenberg thinks that Obama is “on the same page” with respect to Bush, Romney and Giuliani with respect to Osama bin Laden’s continued sanctuary in Pakistan, then have I ever got some ocean-front property in Kansas to sell him! Cheap!

Obama’s statement — “If we had actionable intelligence about high-valued terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will” — is precisely and exactly what is going to propel him into the Oval Office.

For that is precisely what Bush is too chicken to do, and what Romney and Giuliani — should they ever, God forbid, gain the Oval Office — would be too chicken to do as well!

Wake up, Eisenberg! Neocons aren’t patriotic, and they don’t love America. They love multinational corporations and, at heart, are not neo-conservatives at all, but neo-fascists.

And if you don’t believe me, Eisenberg, then believe Ron Paul.

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