BREAKING NEWS: Defense chief Gates says Air Force is not doing enough to help the Iraq war effort
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the Air Force is not doing enough to help in the Iraq and Afghanistan war effort, complaining that some military leaders are "stuck in old ways of doing business."
Gates complained in a speech at the Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., that getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Iraq and Afghanistan has been "like pulling teeth."
Stuck in the old ways of doing business? He must mean like back when we were a respected world power and didn't fuck up everything we touched.
Here's what's going on: The Air Force is starting to question some of it's targets because their guys don't like hearing they killed 40 civilians the next day, and now Bush is getting upset that it's gonna crimp his style.
What does it take for the SOD to call out an entire branch of the military? A lot. Like things are going to hell inna handbasket and it looks like the Secretary of Defense is gonna get blamed for it.