Top Ten Things Bob Gates was Wrong about, Some Criminal - Juan Cole

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/things-about-criminal.html

1. Gates as a high official at the CIA was involved in the 1970s and 1980s in vastly exaggerating the economic and military power of the Soviet Union, scaring the American public with a supposed threat that was actually far smaller and less formidable than officials such as Gates alleged. Gates made a career out of politicizing intelligence. Inside the CIA, analysts who tell their bosses what they want to hear are called weasels. Gates was the weaseliest. One of the main reasons the CIA failed to predict the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 was precisely the exaggerations and politicization pushed by Gates.



2. When he was a high official at the CIA in the mid to late 1980s, Gates was involved in selling Pentagon weaponry to the Ayatollah Khomeini. That’s right, the dreaded “biggest supporter of terrorism” in the world, the dire security threat to American allies. That Ayatollah Effing Khomeini. Iran was on the US terrorism watchlist at the time the Reagan administration was making the sales, so you couldn’t have done anything more illegal or hypocritical.

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[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. I will personally pledge $100 to send this warlover to Afghanistan. Anyone else want to pledge?

I want to buy Gates a one-way ticket to Kabul, so he can fix what Obama and Biden messed up. I'm sick to death of psychotic death cultists insisting on slaughtering more and more people all the time. You want more war, Robert Gates? Then get the fuck out of the US and start fighting in the theater of your choice.

[Octafish]

2. Tried to remind everybody back in 2006...

Know your BFEE: Robert Gates did more than keep the doors open at BCCI

EXCERPT...

Gates is a poster child for the Bush Family Evil Empire. From what we know:

October Surprise
Team B Soviet Threat Analysis
Iran-Contra Treason
Iraqgate Treason
Murder Inc.
Spying on America
BCCI



An Eagle Scout, a real Sweetheart.

[MFM008]

3. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Its the MONEY and trying to sully both Biden and Clinten for 2016. He can take his book and shove it.

[NCTraveler]

4. 9 out of 10 of these were know before Obama decided to keep him on.

Such a shame. There should be no surprises here.