Robert Gates: As Bad As Rumsfeld? - by Ray McGovern

[excerpt] ... What can Barack Obama be thinking? I suspect that those in Obama's circle who are promoting Gates may be the same advisers responsible for Obama's most naïve comment of the recent presidential campaign: that the "surge" of US troops into Iraq in 2007-08 "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Succeeded? You betcha – the surge was a great success in terms of the administration's overriding objective. The aim was to stave off definitive defeat in Iraq until President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney could swagger from the West Wing into the western sunset on Jan. 20, 2009. ... Read Ray McGovern at Antiwar.com