critiques, quote, i think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. gates and biden have always been oil and water. gates, buttoned down and disciplined. biden, well, he s biden. these comments are personal. especially when biden is already fighting all sorts of perception issues about his capabilities ahead of 2016. this one probably hits him as hard as any as you can have. it might explain why, frankly, the white house is allowing still photographers of the president s weekly lunch with the vice president today. something when i saw it in the media was like, well, this only has one thing, it s all about the gates book. biden criticism, though, isn t the only nugget with 2016 implications. while the book is full of praise for former secretary of state hillary clinton, the two were very close in this obama cabinet, the quote this quote is one of the most intriguing of the book. quote, hillary, gates writes, told the
opposed to the war in iraq from the beginning. i m not going to i m not going to impugn him in any way. i m just telling you from my experience, and i was rather close to the president when he was in the united states senate, that was absolutely not the case. as you can tell, this tap dancing around what to do about this gates memoir is fascinating. look at this statement from the white house that they put out last night from the national security council spokesperson. she writes, as as always been the case, the president welcomes differences of view among his national security team which broaden his options and enhance our policies. the strongest defense in there is reserved for vice president biden. more from this quote. from his leadership on the balkans in the senate, to his efforts to end the war in iraq, joe biden has been one of the leading statesmen of his time and has helped advance america s leadership in the world. president obama relies on his good counsel every day. th
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