The Gates Keeper

Finally someone, in this cabinet of incompetants, who makes sense. While my grandson was on his third tour in Iraq, he was subjected to a motivational speech from one of this admistrations poster-boys. When he was finished he asked the men for their opinions. My grandson told him he reminded gun of Hitler's Goebles. The poster-boys response was "Who?" Not only are they "parrots" they are uneducated parrots.

November can't come soon enough.

Today McCain announced that he "hates war." If McCain hates war so much, why does he want to bomb Iran and stay in Iraq for 100 years? He knows the war is unpopular and is trying to make himself look like a dove. He is trying to re-write history. Everybody knows McCain is a hawk. Now he's pretending to hate war.

At the same time, he tells you : "You should be very, very afraid. The world is full of terrorists and only hawks like me can keep you safe."

Does anybody else see the irony of this? He's playing a double game.

Besides, it was the hawks (like Cheney, et al) who got us into this mess, and it's the tough diplomats (like Obama) who will get us out. Hawks make you unsafe because they incite anger and war-like behavior by running around threatening people. Diplomats make you safe because they diffuse anger and open new ways for other people to express their greivances without war or terrorism. For example, look what Kennedy did with the Bay of Pigs incident. The Soviet Union had nuclear missiles in Cuba, aimed at Miami and Washington DC. Kennedy got them to remove their missiles, peacefully. He had lots of other options. He could have attacked Cuba or attacked Russia. He could have started WW III. But he didn't. He used TOUGH diplomacy, the same kind that Obama is advocating.

It works.

The families of US military personnel who lost their lives in India during World War IIl hope that during his February visit to India Defense Secretary Gates and Indian Defense officials will solidify the January agreement on joint US-Indian recovery operations in India's Northeast, where the eight-member crew of the US aircraft "Hot as Hell" were killed in 1944. If a recovery operation is completed in 2008, that would mark a major milestone in US-Indian humanitarian cooperation. Gary Zaetz Nephew of Lt. Irwin Zaetz, navigator of the "Hot as Hell"

Thanks for your insight and civility Braes. I wish more posts on blogs like these had the knowledge and tone that yours do.

People lets take a breath here, stop and think, How much health care can you buy for $44,000.00 per person/ per year? This is how much we as Americans are spending each on this war. Ask yourselves this, which candidate has said they would end the war now? Yes there is one who voted NO for the war running. Now to me that???s the guy who is worth voting for, its time for a change and its time for American politics to go to the Doctor. Join the revolution, join the teaparty07! Make your vote mean something vote Liberty, Peace Prosperity??? Ron Paul.

he is a fraut

If he is the best in war making machinery, i hope he brings it all home, to US soil, or we will run out of spare parts on the battle field, in the furture! If we must spend 2 BILLION A DAY in Iraq, or anywhere, Let the 2 BILLION A DAY make it back into the US economy here inside OUR borders OUR wages IN America! Would that be nice or what? Maybe rebuild our roads to, this might employ 50+ million at better than min wage for at least 10-15 years ,rebuiilding the great war machine IN OUR currently closed factories with alt fuels would ensure this, and more!

I served from 1978 till they let me go and spent 5 years in the middle east arming training and funding the same people we seek out today to kill, my history is from being there and knowing what your not allowd to see or hear as most of what i just said is public but alot is still "I'm not at liberty to say" We don't belong there and unwanted to boot! To many black bags comming from D.C. for a very very long long time, underminding what we say we want done.

The fact that this Administration has often put several carts before horses does not legitimize any of it.
your right about ligitimize, and WE are right about the cart before the horse, it is for this reason every nuclear counrty sleeps with there button under there pillows, cause they all know, we eat horses. Then call it wrong but not till AFTER the fact.

Nice but inaccurate!!! When the GOP congress and GOP senate GAVE GW pre-emptive power [way more power than Chaves was hoping for] Gates cannot stop Bush from a phone call to launch, it is his pre-emptive right, our old fully GOP Government gave him. We can only pray that Gates is a show stopper, or we will be in Iran for nothing, before he leaves office, and we cannot kill or impeach him, cause Cheney is a putz who cannot run this country for a day,,, kinda like Quail!!!

Sec. Gates is an exceptionally bright, pragmatic and valuable asset to an otherwise chaotic, immature, dysfunctional gang of dangerous administration bullies. He is a tactical and stragegic thinker who views the univiverse of issues facing America and the world within a rationale construct. I only wish he would serve in the next administration whoever it may be. Thank you Bob Gates

And who's fault is it that partisanship no longer stops at the waters' edge. Is it any wonder that you can only find this rag on the floor of a gasoline station bathroom.

Thank God for Bill Gates. At least Bush couldn't screw this one up. Bush was finally forced to concede that his neo-con and old boy agenda just doesn't work. Dick Cheney has to be one of the most dangerous politicians of the History of the United States. It is with great relief that we have someone who has the guts and will to at least stand up to this very dangerous man since Bush is incapable of doing so.