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Quote of the Week: "If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
Election 2014 and 2016… All Sewn-Up or the Battle(s) for Americas Life
Alert: Rand Paul Sues Obama… Join Class Action Suit
- Judge Jeanine Pirro – Obamacare lies – How Many More People Will Lose Coverage?
- Sarah Palin Responds to Roger Ailes Quote Explaining Why Fox News Hired Her AND Why She Accepted
- Alfred E. Smith: Betrayal of the Democratic Party
- Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Benghazi IRS NSA 1-11-2014
- No Confidence
- The Lynchpins Have Been Pulled
- Rush on Jobs Report
- Website of Top House Republican Drops Opposition to Amnesty and Others Are Waffling… Get Invovled!
- Glenn Beck: Similarities Between Christie & Obama [video]
- The Well-Greased Machine… and the Plan
- The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results 01.10.14
- What really happened to the German gold housed in the United States?
- FOX News’ Roger Ailes Talks Back – Great Interview!
- ISSA Warns Sebelius That She Could Face Perjury Charges Over Obamacare Testimony – Rep Trey Gowdy
- Gates Book Puts White House in Defense Mode… And Conveniently a Christie Scandal Appears
- Rolling Stone Article Tells Millennials To Push For Communism… Gutfeld Responds
- Watcher’s Council Nominations – Global Warming Edition
- Political Researcher, Trevor Loudon is Speaking to The Clark Co. IN TEA Party Feb 7th — Be There!
- Global Warming Hits Michigan…
- Cruz will headline local GOP fundraiser
- Louie Gohmert: Let’s Blow Up All Iran Nuclear Sites
- Sean Hannity Reacts to WFB Story on Al-Qaeda Being Invited to Briefing on Drone Policy By Congressional Democrats
- Judge Jeanine Pirro – Benghazi 9/11 Whitewash – Rep Trey Gowdy Responds To NY Times Article
- The Chinese High-Tech Dynasty Wrapped in Red
- Forum: Whom Would You Least Like To See In A Presidential Matchup In 2016?
- Iraq…is it really over for America
- The Season and Meaning of Epiphany – WoC 2013/14
- NYT, Hillary & Obama’s War on a Mom
- Los Angeles Times Skips the I-Word As California Grants Law License to Illegal Alien
- Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Justice Resolutions – Obama Admin Vs Little Sisters 1-4-2014
Also See:
Book of the Week – Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Kindle)
Gates Book Puts White House in Defense Mode… And Conveniently a Christie Scandal Appears
Rush Limbaugh slammed the media on Wednesday for its coverage of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, saying “The focus on the bridge controversy only serves to take former defense secretary Robert Gates’ critique of President Barack Obama “off the front page.”
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. Now, in this unsparing memoir, meticulously fair in its assessments, he takes us behind the scenes of his nearly five years as a secretary at war: the battles with Congress, the two presidents he served, the military itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to help Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding, and often dissenting, voice for Obama; the ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers—his “heroes”—he developed on the job.
In relating his personal journey as secretary, Gates draws us into the innermost sanctums of government and military power during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, illuminating iconic figures, vital negotiations, and critical situations in revealing, intimate detail. Offering unvarnished appraisals of Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Presidents Bush and Obama among other key players, Gates exposes the full spectrum of behind-closed-doors politicking within both the Bush and Obama administrations.
He discusses the great controversies of his tenure—surges in both Iraq and Afghanistan, how to deal with Iran and Syria, “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” Guantánamo Bay, WikiLeaks—as they played out behind the television cameras. He brings to life the Situation Room during the Bin Laden raid. And, searingly, he shows how congressional debate and action or inaction on everything from equipment budgeting to troop withdrawals was often motivated, to his increasing despair and anger, more by party politics and media impact than by members’ desires to protect our soldiers and ensure their success.
However embroiled he became in the trials of Washington, Gates makes clear that his heart was always in the most important theater of his tenure as secretary: the front lines. We journey with him to both war zones as he meets with active-duty troops and their commanders, awed by their courage, and also witness him greet coffin after flag-draped coffin returned to U.S. soil, heartbreakingly aware that he signed every deployment order. In frank and poignant vignettes, Gates conveys the human cost of war, and his admiration for those brave enough to undertake it when necessary.
Duty tells a powerful and deeply personal story that allows us an unprecedented look at two administrations and the wars that have defined them
Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Benghazi IRS NSA 1-11-2014
NYT, Hillary & Obama’s War on a Mom
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