Anyone know anyhitng about this Gates guy....

[MidMichiganBuckeye]

Who is taking the idiots place?

[Kadie]

1. Former Head of CIA

[Kadie]

2. President of Texas A&M

[Sequoia]

7. Oh great, going to give it the old college try?

Animal House! Send the troop togas.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. he's the guy who said the soviet union was stronger than ever

just before it collapsed.

[leftofthedial]

4. George the First's head of the CIA

he is one of the good-old-boys from poppy's cabal

[jackstraw45]

5. Iran/Contra...Iran/Contra.....

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1991_cr/s911107-gates.htm

Mr. HARKIN. Mr. President, I rise in opposition to the nomination of Robert Gates to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. President, at the outset of the confirmation hearings, I had serious reservations about the nominee. The confirmation hearings only raised more questions and greater doubts. Questions and doubts about Mr. Gates' past activities, managerial style, judgment, lapses in memory and analytical abilities. Questions and doubts about his role in the Iran-Contra Affair and in providing military intelligence to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war; and questions and doubts about whether he will be able to remove the ideological blinders reflected in his writings and speeches or whether Mr. Gates is so rooted in the past, that he will not be able to lead the Agency into the post-cold war era. Because of these concerns, I have concluded that Mr. Gates is not the right person for the important job of overseeing our intelligence operations in this New World.

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[meuniermr]

6. For what it's worth, at least Holy Joe dosnt have to leave the Senate.

We need his cloture vote..

[Lyric]

8. Served in the Air Force for 2 years, was a

national security advisor in one form or another for four presidents of both major parties, has received numerous awards for his service in national security, was Director of the CIA, President of Texas A&M, and seems to be a HELL of a lot more qualified than Rumsfeld.

I'm reserving judgment until we see what he does. But at least this one has actually SERVED in the military. The soldiers will respect him a hell of a lot more.

[napi21]

9. Here's some very good info about Gates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates

he apparently is also close friends with James Baker, Brent Skocroft etc. At least those guys are more sane than Rummy and Shrubput together.