\u201cI really thought that it was important for us to maintain a presence in Iraq,\u201d Mr. Panetta said in an interview set to air on \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d CBSreported Friday.<\/p>\n
Mr. Panetta said the entire national security team urged Mr. Obama to give more support to rebels fighting in Syria against Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real key was how can we develop a leadership group among the opposition that would be able to take control. And my view was to have leverage to do that, we would have to provide the weapons and the training in order for them to really be wiling to work with us in that effort,\u201d Mr. Panetta said, CBS reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don’t believe a word that comes out of Panetta’s mouth, for the record. I think he’s just trying to save his own image at this point. Like when Clinton left the White House, I wish I had a nickel for every liberal who told me they thought he was a scumbag.<\/p>\n
I feel the same about Gates, who has taken every opportunity to try and salvage his image since he left the Pentagon and screwed the troops with his BS about lower wages and increased healthcare costs;<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m also concerned that the goal has been stated as \u2018degrade and destroy\u2019 or \u2018degrade and defeat\u2019 ISIS. We\u2019ve been at war with Al Qaeda for 13 years. We have dealt them some terrible blows, including the killing of Osama bin Laden. But I don\u2019t think anybody would say that after 13 years we\u2019ve destroyed or defeated Al Qaeda. So I think to promise that we\u2019re going to destroy ISIS or ISIL sets a goal that may be unattainable,\u201d Mr. Gates said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, everyone is lining up to get their shots in, where the f*** have they been for the last five or six years to stop us from getting to this point? Where were they when Obama half-assed the surge? Why didn’t any of them speak out when he was unassing Iraq? Where were they six months ago when ISIS took Fallujah? There has been points during this thing that someone should have come forward and said something – any of those three could have changed the direction this administration was taking.<\/p>\n
Now that the President’s polling is falling off a cliff, the rats are abandoning ship. They could have changed the course of history, but instead they just went along with the current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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