{"id":62365,"date":"2015-10-18T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62365"},"modified":"2015-10-18T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:48:37","slug":"gates-obama-distrusts-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62365","title":{"rendered":"Gates: Obama distrusts the military"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years too late, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates comes forward to tell us that President Obama mistrusted the military leaders who were advising him on Afghanistan, you know, that war that Obama told us mattered. Gates told Fox News that voices in the White House were telling Obama that military was trying to make him look bad in the war against terror. From Breitbart<\/a>;<\/p>\n

He stated, \u201cI think this was particularly true in Afghanistan, and I think there were people in the White House, and I don\u2019t want to name any names, who were constantly goading him and saying the military is trying to box you in. the military is trying to trap you. the military is trying to bully you. The military is trying to make you do something you don\u2019t want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if Vice President Joe Biden was one of these people, Gates answered, \u201cI think so. And I was told so. And I think \u2014 but he was not alone, and you can argue with the options that they were putting forward, as President Bush did. you can disagree with them, as President Bush did. I \u2014 that\u2019s totally fair, in my view. But, to think that they are trying to mousetrap you, I think is a \u2014 if I were the president and i truly believed that, I would replace those commanders that I felt were trying to trick me. So, I just \u2014 I worried a lot that he was hearing from people, things that made him worry that the military was consciously trying to thwart his will, consciously trying to be insubordinate, and I never believed any of that for a second.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course it was Biden – Afghanistan was one of the little projects that the President gave Biden to handle so the President didn’t have to get his hands dirty.<\/p>\n

Like I’ve said a hundred times before – screw you, Gates. Where was all of this honesty when it could have made a difference? If the President wasn’t listening to you and your generals, why didn’t you just very vocally resign? Why didn’t you come out with all of this before the 2012 election to prevent what has befallen the Pentagon an the troops since the reelection?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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