{"id":27817,"date":"2016-03-17T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27817"},"modified":"2016-03-17T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:28:04","slug":"and-the-buck-stops-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27817","title":{"rendered":"And The Buck Stops Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Term of office\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Term_of_office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">term of office<\/a> winds down, some of the background information on some of his really bad foreign policy decisions is beginning to come out. Former <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Robert Gates\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Gates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Secretary of Defense Robert Gates<\/a> is speaking out about the overthrow of Egyptian <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hosni Mubarak\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hosni_Mubarak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">President Hosni Mubarak<\/a>, which was encouraged by the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/03\/17\/former-defense-secretary-says-obama-went-against-the-entire-national-security-team-on-egypt-coup\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Blaze <\/a>posted an article today about Secretary Gates&#8217; comments in an upcoming <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fox News Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Fox News<\/a> special.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaze reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to Gates, Obama called for Mubarak\u2019s immediate removal despite his <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National security\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">national security<\/a> team urging him to be cautious.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cLiterally, the entire national security team recommended unanimously handling Mubarak differently than we did,\u201d Gates said. \u201cAnd the president took the advice of three junior backbenchers in terms of how to treat Mubarak. One of them saying, \u2018<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mr. President (band)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mr-president.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Mr. President<\/a>, you gotta be on the right side of the history.\u2019 And I would be sitting there at the table, and I\u2019d say, \u2018Yeah, if we could just figure that out, we\u2019d be a long way ahead.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It matters who sits in the White House and who is on his team. Please remember that when you vote in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Obama&#8217;s term of office winds down, some of the background information on some of his really bad foreign policy decisions is beginning to come out. 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