Defense Secretary Robert Gates is counting down the days until the end of the Bush presidency

[kpete]

The Gates Countdown. In The New York Times Magazine, Fred Kaplan writes that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is counting down the days until the end of the Bush presidency:

When the next president takes the oath on Jan. 20, 2009, Gates will be just 65 years old, but he insists he will retire from public life, this time for good. A friend recently gave him an electronic key chain, inscribed “The Gates Countdown,” with a small screen reading out how many days remain till the end of the term. He carries it everywhere, in part as a joke but not entirely. Told that those screens can be reset, he replied, “Not this one.” When I mentioned that some lawmakers would like him to stay on in the next administration, he replied, “I am very wary of saying, ‘Never,’” but added, “The circumstances under which I would do that are inconceivable to me.”

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/11/the-gates-countdown/

[Solly Mack]

1. No surprise there

[catnhatnh]

2. Since I stink at linking and cut and paste....

...I suggest people google "gates iran contra"-the first link will show him to have been a war criminal for well over 20 years....so he can read his countdown timer all he wants but that sucker will NEVER reach the statute of limitations on "crimes against humanity"...Think on THAT in your leisure time, Bobby.Oh yeah, and practice Lady McBeth's soliloquy dick wad.