Pentagon's Gates mild-mannered but no soft touch

Not mentioned here, is the fact that Gates lied like a rug during Iran/Contra.

Plus, how the hell can he claim ignorance when he was a part of the Baker-Hamilton Group, AKA, the ISG?

We want to know why Bush chose him to head up the Pentagon and ignored the findings of the ISG, of which he was a member.

Pentagon's Gates mild-mannered but no soft touch Politics News Reuters.com:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates' mild-mannered public persona could hardly be more different from his outspoken predecessor Donald Rumsfeld but his early decisions indicate he is no soft touch.

'One of my favorite quotes is from Frederick the Great,' he said on a seven-nation trip including stops in Afghanistan and Iraq that wrapped up on the weekend. 'Negotiations without arms are like notes without instruments.'

In his first month in the job, he has approved an increase in the size of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, backed a new Iraq plan that involves more than 21,000 extra troops and indicated he favors more forces for Afghanistan too.