The biggest political surprises often hide in plain sight.
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Hillary for Defense? The president may also want her for veep to rally the base in 2012. – (Free Republic)
From Fox : “A memo from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to the Whitehouse warned that the United States lacks a nimble long-term plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, according to a published report.” A “nimble” – “long-term plan”?,—-for dealing with a nuclear armed Islomofascist regime,– that is motivated to bring about the return of the hidden Mahdi ? Sorry, but “nimble” certainly won’t work. The certain danger of an Islamist regime armed with nukes requires an overwhelming and dispportionate response of “shock and awe”.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates Warns U.S. Lacks Strategy on Iran Nukes – (Audacity of Hypocrisy)
Obama Could Dump Biden for Clinton as VP in 2012 Democratic strategists say that if President Obama’s re-election prospects look shaky, he could dump Vice President Joe Biden from the 2012 national ticket and choose Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate. It’s inside-Washington speculation at this point, but the strategists make a good case for such a shift. “Biden was named in the first place to shore up Obama on foreign policy issues, and Obama doesn’t need that anymore,” says a former Clinton adviser
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Obama and Joe Biden split for 2012? – (Political Hotwire)
Newsmax ? Obama’s Strict 19 month timetable sets us up for defeat President Barack Obama’s top deputies on Wednesday defended his plan for a rapid ramp-up in Afghanistan, but some U.S. senators questioned a proposal to set an 18-month timeline for starting to bring troops home.
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Obama’s ‘Exit Strategy’ Comes Under Fire – (Expose Obama)
Rather than make a dicision, Obamo keeps kicking the can down the road. Obama said to want revised Afghanistan options WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama rejected the Afghanistan war options before him and asked for revisions, his defense secretary said Thursday, after the U.S. ambassador in Kabul argued that a significant U.S
FOXNews Obama sends more troops over unannounced In an unannounced move, President Obama is dispatching up to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March.
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Obama sneaks up to 15,000 additional troops into Afghanistan – (Expose Obama)
THE top US military commander in Afghanistan has been effectively rebuked by President Barack Obama's man in the Pentagon for running a public campaign to back his request for more troops. Defence Secretary Robert Gates yesterday spoke out just days after General Stanley McChrystal declared any scaling back of operations in Afghanistan, such as that favoured by some White House officials, would be short-sighted.
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Robert Gates chides General Stanley McChrystal ;campaign; – (Free Republic)
By Alex Spillius, UK telegraph Gen. McChrystal’s speaking out on strategy has upset the Obama admin
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Obama angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan – (Expose Obama)
I expected this kind of indecision from Obama but not from Gates. In an interview Wednesday, a senior defense official said that Defense Secretary Robert Gates now worries that counterinsurgency might no longer be a viable approach for countering the…
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Strategic Drift…Secretary of Defense Gates Not Sure Counter Insurgency Is Right Strategy – (Ace of Spades)
By Jane Sutton, Reuters Obama is preparing to shut it down by releasing terrorists right and left An Obama administration task force has so far cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as part of its effort to close the detention camp, a military spokesman said on Monday.
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Obama team clears 75 at Guantanamo for release – (Expose Obama)