On Election Day, the American people spoke highly of the way the President and the Republican Party were going to America, not the direction the country wanted to go. They may not respect them, but they do not pay attention to them. The most important issue in the campaign has been two issues according to the exit polls. They were CORRUPTION and IRAQ for that program.
The President was quick to respond with a clear kind of response to the election. I heard that Donald Rumsfeld would be fired 3 or 4 weeks after the election to allow him to leave with his full dignity. The President sent the Duck Secretary now a few hours after the voters had made their decision. In doing so, the President confirms that Congress will accept the nomination of Robert Gates, not the Democratic Congress, on January 07.
What kind of person is Robert Gates, D Sec, as they call the Secretary of Defense? There are similarities to this choice. At the height of the View Nam war, after six more years in office, Robert McNamara was a weary man, beaten and tortured for running in that war. Her children were all around her. Her friends suggested that you continue to be a part of this business? McNamara left, and Lyndon Johnson replaced Clark Clifford, one of my heroes who had been the legal adviser to all Democratic Alliance presidents since Harry Truman. Clifford was the lawyer for Joe Kennedy, the father of the assassinated President tomorrow.
Johnson thought Clifford would become the perfect HAWK in Vietnam, and increase the pressure on the war. Instead, he advised Johnson, that he was in an invincible position, and advised on a negotiating agreement. Johnson has swallowed, announced he will not be appointed to his team or re-appointed in the coming months.
Robert Gates, the newly appointed Secretary of Defense, is the President's second attempt to reach out to his father's advisers to HELP HIM. For the past 3 years, not once has the President spoken to the most important adviser he could speak to, about what they have done in Iraq - his father, George Herbert Walker Bush. Now that the Iraq war has turned into a nightmare, the President has appointed his father's CIA director, Robert Gates, to intervene and change the situation.
Gates was a student of Brent Scow croft (formerly National Security Adviser), and Condoleezza Rice, our Secretary of State. Scow croft is regarded as the most infamous artisan in charge of White House foreign policy during George HW Bush's presidency. Many people think Secretary of State James Baker fired a shot, which is partially correct. Scow croft was an experienced technician. Baker studied as the years went by, and he became a very effective Secretary of State. Gates was always present, a full-time intelligence analyst who was the only CIA employee on the job who rose from the ground to become a Director.
The current status of the President
The President is in trouble, and the people around him called Neo-Cons put him in a mess. What you should understand is that George Bush unlike many other politicians believes in what he says, and speaks what he believes. Most politicians play for the masses. The man's hero was probably Harry Truman, who walked out of the White House with an approximate rate of about 25% in 1953 and continued to be respected by subsequent generations of Americans.
President Bush is not playing to the crowd. This is evident in his news conferences where he could not hold back but express his feelings when reporters asked stupid questions "SHOWBOAT". Bush will not have your part. He’s a real guy who lives his life that way. If the Iraqi Study Group, led by former Secretary of State Baker, gives the President tough advice on Iraq, he may take it. Bush is not a fool. You know that the battle is not over. You also know that the American people like to keep their Presidents slow when it comes to wars, and the free ride is now over.
In the meantime, the pressure on President Bush could be dire. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was taking the President's heat for granted. Rumsfeld as a cover for this country's anger is gone. Bush will take the heat himself. He has no problem with that if the President himself continues to believe in the rightness of his actions, and he still believes. The President has always been looked down upon by his opponents. You do not win two national elections, and one congressional election between being a fool.
Bob Gates will change things in the Department of Defense, and change them quickly. Do not believe at all that Rumsfeld was wrong in everything he did, that is nonsense. He did four very bad things. First, he underestimated the need for an Iraq war of US military standards. More soldiers are needed to rule the country and to end dissatisfaction, rather than attacking and seizing power. Second, he acknowledged or encouraged the destruction of the Iraqi army. That army could be used to rebuild and control post-war Iraq. We just need to PAY them a sum equal to half of what we pay Halliburton for a failed US policy.
Third, he participated in, or promoted, the expulsion of Sunni government officials from the Iraqi government before obtaining COMPETENT REPLACEMENTS to replace those deported. They were able to turn on the electricity and keep government equipment running. Even General Patton at the end of the WW II coup used Nazi officials until he was able to train his officers. Fourth, Iraqi police were fired, and young people had to be found, tested, and trained - 3 years later.
What does it mean? We do not know if democracy will have the opportunity to prosper in Iraq. It's too late, too much time is wasted waiting for that to happen
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