Is Gates merely Rumsfeld with a charm school degree...?

you might like like to think it's all behind you, bobby, but, remember, we didn't have the internet in 1984...

In 1984, Robert Gates, then the No. 2 CIA official, advocated U.S. airstrikes against Nicaragua's pro-Cuban government to reverse what he described as an ineffective U.S. strategy to deal with communist advances in Central America, previously classified documents say.

Gates, President Bush's nominee to be defense secretary, said the United States could no longer justify what he described as "halfhearted" attempts to contain Nicaragua's Sandinista government, according to documents released Friday by the National Security Archive, a private research group.

In a memo to CIA Director William Casey dated Dec. 14, 1984, Gates said his proposed airstrikes would be designed "to destroy a considerable portion of Nicaragua's military buildup" and be focused on tanks and helicopters.

so, what are we gonna get to replace rumsfeld...? looks to me like exactly the same kind of war-mongering nutcase, with this exception - gates has been to charm school...

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