On Iraq, Gates may not be following Bush's playbook

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Source: lat



http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gates6may06,0,2140065.story?coll=la-home-headlines
On Iraq, Gates may not be following Bush's playbook

As the president pushes for more time and money for the war, the Pentagon chief's message has seemed to run counter.
By Peter Spiegel and Julian E. Barnes
Times Staff Writers

May 6, 2007

WASHINGTON —
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When Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the chief military spokesman in Baghdad, suggested in recent weeks that a progress report may have to wait until the fall, Gates responded harshly.

"I was a little disturbed, frankly, to hear that one of our military officers — and I don't know who it was — saying it will be fall before we have some good idea," Gates told a congressional hearing, unprompted by any question about timing.

Gates eventually gave way after Bush himself announced that he would give Petraeus until September.

Nonetheless, Gates' views worry military officials who support the troop increase. One senior military officer argued that rather than talking about time running out, Gates and the Pentagon ought to be trying to buy more time for the strategy.............

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[IWantAChange]

1. The military has ALWAYS been drinking the kool aid - micromanagement is a must.

[AzDar]

2. I don't think Bunnypants actually HAS a playbook. Just his Stratego

board in the Oval Office...

[acmavm]

3. It's a given that the only clowns left to run the military are the idiots who

never see the front lines and don't have a single clue.

But why all the attempts to make Gates seem like a good guy?

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_16.htm

from this website...

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_16.htm