http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/ Smart Conversation about the Constitution Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-3233 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-3233 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4544 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4544 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4547 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4547 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4550 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4550 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4553 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4553 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4556 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4556 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4559 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4559 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4562 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4562 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4565 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4565 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2011/09/do-you-have-a-question-for-robert-gates/#comment-4568 Dana Hall Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:49:54 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=8129#comment-4568 @[1274394500:2048:Peter Hopkins] He’s amazing. Declined to serve three times and then 43 said “the country *really* needs you. (He didn’t say that today, I recall hearing it in 06.) When asked what he’d have done differently if he got there earlier he said, “the intelligence for ‘preventative war’ should be MUCH higher.” We all know it now, but at the time, NO ONE QUESTIONED the WMD evidence. He made a fab point: understandable because Sadam wanted everyone to think he had them…an Iraqi in the audience said “we thought he had them”!; Sadam didn’t want Iran to know he couldn’t blow them up. Extraordinary session at the NCC.

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