Gates: I Always Thought Obama’s Notion that Nuclear Deal Would Change Iran Was a Stretch

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So why is he speaking out now? Now, long after the deal is sealed. Coward.

“Gates: I Always Thought Obama’s Notion that Nuclear Deal Would Change Iran Was a Stretch,” by David Rutz, Washington Free Beacon, May 15, 2016 (thanks to Todd):

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he always felt President Obama’s notion that lifting sanctions against Iran through the nuclear deal could help the rogue regime change its ways was “a stretch.”

In an interview airing Sunday on CBS program Face The Nation that delved into the controversial nuclear agreement, Gates added he didn’t personally see the outright manipulation of the public depicted in a recent profile of top Obama adviser Ben Rhodes.

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“Conclusions some have drawn in reading that article about Ben Rhodes is that he shaped the environment for the Iran deal, that he misled the public,” host John Dickerson said. “Did you see that from your observation of the Iran deal and its being sold by the White House?”

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“Well, I didn’t have that sense,” Gates said. “I thought some of the things the White House was saying in terms of believing that lifting the sanctions could, over time, lead the regime in Iran to change its stripes and become a normal country, if you will, I always thought that was a stretch. But I didn’t have the sense that people were being manipulated. That was news to me from that article.”…

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Well wadddaya know? Another politician, when confronted with the obvious, was unaware of its existence. Who elects and appoints these buffoons?

Ezra
Ezra
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Who appointed Robert Gates? Bush…

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Ezra

Who is going to appoint competent minions?

Dale Dimick
Dale Dimick
7 years ago

Obama wants what ALL muslims want Israel burning from an atomic bomb. And he wants to give Stinger missiles to ISIS so they can start shooting down passenger planes around the world.

hogsnort
hogsnort
7 years ago

They only tell us the truth when their snouts are out of the trough.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

If Gates is no more observant than that his recent fall caused some, as yet, undiagnosed brain injury.

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
7 years ago

Make no mistake everyone who worked for the Obama administration or supported Obama is a treasonous coward and should be dealt with as such!

joe1429
joe1429
7 years ago

Lost all respect for gates, after seeing an interview of him praising obama as “steady”, while criticizing Trump

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