We'll start with Robert Gates. It's bad enough that he served under current President Bush and his father as director of the CIA, but he was also
involved in the Iran-contra scandal and the secret arming and funding of Saddam Hussein. And also, "as a senior CIA official in the 1980s...broke the
back of the CIA analytical division's commitment to objective intelligence"(
link)-which is pretty much
the same thing that Rumsfeld and Rice did after 9/11, leading us into war in Iraq.
Eric Holder, who was deputy attorney general under the Clinton administration, was involved in the Marc Rich scandal, in which he pardoned billionaire
oil-man Marc Rich, a fugitive to Switzerland after he was indicted on multiple counts, accused of trading oil in violation of U.S. energy laws and of
a trade embargo with Iran (there were even rumors of him having funded the CIA, through stolen or smuggled gold, in the assassination of a foreign
political leader). While it was Clinton who ordered the pardon minutes before he left office on January 20th, this still demonstrates the level of
corruption this man is involved in. Some believe that Holder deserves more scrutiny for his secretive role in the pardon.
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link)
There's nothing horribly scandalous about Susan Rice, appointed as UN ambassador, except that she, too, was part of Clinton's National Security
Council and is an extremely close friend of Barack Obama. Her appointment is anticipated to increase U.S.-UN relations. I'm not going to read to
much into that last statement...
General James Jones led the marines up to the war in Iraq and failed to voice his opinion on the flawed strategy for the beginning of that war. It's
a man he hardly knows and is strongly at odds with when it comes to political ideology.
We all know about Hilary Clinton and we've talked about Rahm Emanuel. But what do all these appointees have in common? It's quite obvious that they
all served under President Clinton or one of the Bush's and are already seasoned vets in the ways of Washington. I heard the rumors of politicians
being liars but the broken promises in this administration astound me and he hasn't even been sworn in yet.
Was the change that he was talking about the fact that his skin isn't white? Is that supposed to fool us into thinking that he isn't going to govern
just like the rest of them? How long does he expect that is going to work on the American people or is he just playing on the superficial reason he
got elected and hoping we won't look past that?
