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Subject: Defense Secretary Gates scolds US Air Force for war effort. Author: Teller [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Mon, April 21, 2008 12:38:22 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the Air Force is not doing enough to help in the Iraq and Afghanistan war effort, complaining that some military leaders are "stuck in old ways of doing business." Defense Secretary Gates says the services must do more to get resources to the battlefield. Gates said in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, that getting the military services, largely the Air Force, to send more unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Iraq and Afghanistan has been "like pulling teeth." Addressing officer students at the Air Force's Air University, the Pentagon chief praised the Air Force for its overall contributions but made a point of urging it to do more and to undertake new and creative ways of thinking about helping the war effort instead of focusing mainly on future threats. .................................. Excuse me Mr. Gates, Isn't it your job to get them to do more? You are the Secretary of Defense after all. Isn't Bush Commander in Chief anymore? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Gates is an idiot. Rummy was an idiot. The lunatics are running the asylum. Sadly the biggest one is the Commander-in-Chief. How sad. (NT) IDLH Mon, April 21, 2008 2:20:46 This sounds like Rumsfeld telling the military that they can't expect to have money to fight the war intelligently, because we have to send it to war profiteers like Halliburton (NT) Dick and Don--The War Criminals Mon, April 21, 2008 2:33:45