Bush Defense Secretary Admits 9/11 Was Blowback

"We were attacked from Afghanistan in 2001, and we are at war in Afghanistan today, in no small measure because of mistakes this government made-mistakes I among others made in the end game of the anti-Soviet war there some 20 years ago." That's an astonishing confession, even if mine was the only jaw that dropped. Gates is the first high official in the Bush administration to acknowledge what war critics have been lambasted for even suggesting. OK, he ... Full Story »

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by Russ Wellen - Oct. 1, 2008

Author Don Williams picks up on a quote that went right over everybody's heads. Gates isn't the only one who should be confessing to mistakes -- so should the media for missing his!

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