doesn t consider this war to be his, that is what has the white house sort of firing back. in fairness to president obama, he inherited this war, came up with a strategy to get the united states out of the war after first disengaging in iraq. there are certain contradictions. gates says the president did a politically unpopular and therefore difficult decision in ordering a surge of troops in afghanistan in order to try to build up the situation there so the u.s. could ultimately withdraw, but at the same time painting a portrait of this president not believing in his own policy, more americans to fight and risk their lives in afghanistan. that is not helpful to the administration, particularly now that it is on defensive on so many other issues. jon: cemetery gates goes after joe biden saying he was wrong i pretty much every major policy issue. that is a topic for another day. pushing back very strongly. thank you very much.
bin laden, go ahead with that, secretary gates does. but meanwhile, writing a lot of tough columns about president obama, this morning has one praising the idea the president was skeptical of the military writing doubts about an ally in afghanistan and the commanders, we need more of that, a lack of skepticism, curiosity and reflection sunk bush further back. who knows how many lives would have been saved during the vietnam war had president johnson acted on his private doubts. the white house put out a statement friday taping high road praising cemetery gates for his service but while they did not rebut any allegations, they specifically rebutted the notion vice president joe biden and allegations of gays has been wrong on every major national security decision. it makes you wonder at the lunch if vice president joe biden is concerned how this could play potentially in 2016 and clinton