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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 17 Sep 2016
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    Note the framing: Gates a "career public servant" rather than a failure-plagued national security state functionarypic.twitter.com/t9zSqCMmgg

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 17 Sep 2016
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        Bob Gates is routinely hailed as a sage-like figure who's above it all, but what did he actually achieve? Nothing. Highly overrated person.

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      3. Chase Madar‏Verified account @ChaseMadar 17 Sep 2016
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        he opposed, in vain obvs, Obama's Libya war. Not sure if anything else he's done has topped that.

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      2. Scott Horton‏ @scotthortonshow 17 Sep 2016
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        He warned against Libya war, then clicked heels and launched it anyway.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 17 Sep 2016
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        Yeah, he always seemed to let himself get steamrolled.

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      1. Kaptain Kanada‏ @KaptKan1 17 Sep 2016
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        "career public servant" translated into English is "lifetime parasite".

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      2. Ward Harkavy‏ @WHarkavy 17 Sep 2016
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        "Public servant" always kills me. How has it persisted so long?

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      3. Elizabeth Ferrari‏ @48thAve 17 Sep 2016
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        His career as a fixer predates the nat'l security state, back to IranContra, iirc.

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      1. David Gondek‏ @mutex7 17 Sep 2016
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        I would like to personally savage all the architects of, and apologists for, this deplorable never ending war!

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      1. AmbireSeiche‏ @AmbireSeiche 17 Sep 2016
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        I think it's all just damage control for HRC camp now, trying to limit loss of votes from the crumbling facade

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      1. KGB Agent Hether‏ @wizHether 17 Sep 2016
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        Serving Bush Jr. AND Obama! What a resume! He's the David Gergen of armchair Generals!

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      1. Matthew A. Duda‏ @nnw59 17 Sep 2016
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        Who turned on Bush and Obama both.

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      1. Ellah-Ween, Squad Member  🎃 💀 🧟‍♀️ 🧛🏼‍♀️ 🕷 🕸 🦇‏ @Ellahbie 17 Sep 2016
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        Like James Comey.

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      1. WKRP in Cincinnatus‏ @WC_Fox 17 Sep 2016
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        @AJDelgado13 as if I'm supposed to be impressed by "career public servant who is well compensated for his service"

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      1. Karen Santal‏ @KSantal 17 Sep 2016
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        The problem we don't know about?

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