Not that the puke Panetta will be any better.
"A tearful goodbye as Gates retires from Defense Dept." by Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press / July 1, 2011
WASHINGTON - A visibly moved Defense Secretary Robert Gates paused briefly at a Pentagon retirement ceremony rife with pomp and pageantry yesterday, collected himself, and told his president: “You’re getting pretty good at this covert ops stuff.’’
And if anyone would know.
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At the ceremony under brilliant blue skies outside the Pentagon, Gates bid an emotional farewell to the military. And Obama, who had kept him on as Pentagon chief after the end of the Bush administration, hailed him as “a humble American patriot, a man of common sense and decency; quite simply, one of our nation’s finest public servants.’’
See: Memory Hole: Meet Your "New" SecDef
One of our finest "missed" the Soviet collapse and was up to his neck in the criminal Iran-Contra case as well as the Iran-Iraq war (helping Saddam Hussein gas Iranians)?
It was Gates, he said, who pressed to get more heavily armored vehicles and hunter-killer drones to the war front and made it his mission to ensure that the department served the troops in the field “as well as they serve us.’’
His legacy. Mass-murdering missile strikes.
In a surprise break from the printed program, Obama presented Gates with the medal - the highest civilian honor he can bestow....
Which means the medal means just about as much as a Nobel Prize: nothing
Gates is known to tear up when he talks to troops, particularly during visits to the war front....
Even war criminal liars cry!
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Good f***ing riddance!
