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Secretary Gates may be competent. But throughout the party that supported Barack Obama, there is a wealth of competent potential Secretary material. Mr. Gates strength at the time of selection was that he could work among the scoundrels that fed at the RNCs trough, that he could execute Dick Cheney's orders with discretion and rid the general officer ranks with those who may have shown latency of proper character development going into the 2008 election.
MRAPs and MMRs are platforms that isolate the fielded forces from the terrain in which they are deployed. They are a tribute to bad generalship - except in their ability to protect troops in a place where they have lost control. Ever time one shows up in theater it is taking another group of service people out of the line. They are death traps in an conventional combat setting. Obsolete from the time of conception.
Gates is a professional mole with domestic manners. Please return to the wealth endowed estate in the Northwest or College Station.
