Robert M. Gates Quotes

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Invited Me To Breakfast On The Eighteenth. Five Days Before, She Had Issued A News Release Saying, "The President's Strategy In Iraq Has Failed," And "The Choice Is Between A Democratic Plan For Responsible Redeployment And The President's Plan For An Endless War In Iraq." With Those Comments As Backdrop, At The Breakfast I Urged Her To Pass The Defense Appropriations Bill Before October And To Pass The War Supplemental In Total, Not To Mete It Out A Few Weeks Or Months At A Time. I Reminded Her That The President Had Approved Petraeus's Recommendation For A Change Of Mission In December And Told Her That Petraeus And Crocker Had Recommended A Sustainable Path Forward That Deserved Broad Bipartisan Support. She Politely Made Clear She Wasn't Interested. I Wasn't Surprised. After All, One Wouldn't Want Facts And Reality - Not To Mention The National Interest - To Intrude Upon Partisan Politics, Would One?

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