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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 11:20 AM
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Defense nominee (Robert Gates) criticizes Iraq planning

http://www.newsone.ca/ottawarecorder/ViewArticle.aspx?id=30070&source=2

Defense nominee criticizes Iraq planning

WASHINGTON - Former CIA Director Robert Gates, President Bush ‘s nominee for defense Secretary, criticized the handling of the war in Iraq and said he will improve Pentagon postwar planning if he is confirmed.

Gates also endorsed the idea of engaging Iran and Syria for help in stabilizing increasingly violent Iraq, an opinion at odds with Bush‘s.

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"If confirmed, I intend to improve the department‘s capabilities in this area," he said in answer to a question about what he would have done differently. "With the advantage of hindsight, I might have done some things differently."

"I believe the use of pre-emptive force should be based on very strong evidence," he said when asked about incorrect intelligence saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. "It is a decision that must not be taken lightly," Gates added.


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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 11:22 AM
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1. let the media campaign begin!
Uhhhh -- did you get that saber you're rattling from the Contras Mr. Gates? :sarcasm:
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Sagan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 11:24 AM
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2. How about improving PRE-war planning?

As in, not getting into them in the first place?
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 11:42 AM
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3. What Planning?
It's a little too late for that. We are way past the CYA window of opportunity, even. The only plan is knock Bush unconscious, get Farrell to impersonate him, and declare an evacuation. If necessary, look Dim Son up in the mental ward, for he's surely raving.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-29-06 12:27 PM
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4. I love the smell of ad hoc bullshit in the morning
Spread that on the lower forty and we can feed the food insecure for years
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