Democrats Cave on Gates Nomination
Though the Democrats won the Nov. 7 elections largely because of public anger over the Iraq War, President George W. Bush has prevailed in the first post-election showdown over Iraq.
He got the Senate Armed Services Committee to unanimously approve his new choice of Robert M. Gates as Defense Secretary, with Democrats failing to nail Gates down on any substantive point about war strategy.
In effect, Bush has bought himself at least several months to continue his "stay-until-victory" plan, even as more American soldiers and Iraqis die.
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Ray McGovern A CIA Insider's Take on Gates
He got the Senate Armed Services Committee to unanimously approve his new choice of Robert M. Gates as Defense Secretary, with Democrats failing to nail Gates down on any substantive point about war strategy.
In effect, Bush has bought himself at least several months to continue his "stay-until-victory" plan, even as more American soldiers and Iraqis die.
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Ray McGovern A CIA Insider's Take on Gates
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 and Robert Gates's branch chief in the early 1970s writes: "As Iraq goes down the drain, and 'the crazies' accelerate their campaign to bomb Iran, what is more important than a defense secretary from whom Congress can expect truthful testimony? Hold the Gates nomination over to January."
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 4:18 PM
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