Posts tagged ‘robert gates’

Troops Allege Sexual Assault

November 16th, 2011

   There is an impending federal case against the military by twenty eight different troops from all branches of service who claim that Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates allowed the perpretration of a culture which allowed sexual abuse to go unpunished. I don’t know any of these troops and their situations but they may need [...]

   Our Secretary of Defense seemed guardedly optimistic about our operation in Afghanistan. We have made some significant gains during the troop surge but the real test will be whether the Afghan defense forces will be able to hold it when we withdraw. We have taken many steps to insure the security of that country [...]

    US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that there is a preponderance of intelligence pointing to the fact that Libyan Prime Minister  Gadhafi is using the bodies of rebels to make it seem as though our pilots are killing innocent Libyan civilians. He is using the bodies of people who his own soldiers have [...]

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expressed concern about the direction that the Chinese are taking with their Naval expansion. All that I have to say about his concern is that it’s about time. I hope it hasn’t taken our governmant this long to figure out that there is a fly in the buttermilk. [...]

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has finally publicly warned that we should be wary of the Chinese military buildup. Now if you have been following this blog you will remember that I have been warning about the Chinese for quite a while. and I agree I am not even that smart and I had [...]

I’m sure many of you are aware that US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has just returned from China where he spent some time on a tour of a few of the Asian Countries. He ended up his tour with a last whirlwind crock of bull visit to China. I think that the real purpose [...]

Us Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is going on a short diplomatic tour of Asia shortly. One of the objectives of the tour will be to renew diplomatic ties with China. Now my question is this: Who in the world do you think you are fooling with this logic? The Chinese don’t care about anything [...]

Our Secretary of Defense shared in President Obama’s assesment of the war in Afghanistan when he briefed marines there that the war is going well. In spite of everything that the insurgents have tried to do our military ring customers have driven them out of Marjah. Now Marjah was a psychological victory because it was [...]

Gates Offers to Stay In Iraq

November 18th, 2010

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has thrown a big time hint to the new goverment of Iraq by saying that the US would remain there longer than the agreed upon deadline if asked. Most US troops are scheduled to be out of the country by 2011 but it would probably behoove Iraq if we stayed [...]