Bob Gates ' memoir includes quitting fantasies , fears for troops . Bush and Obama `` had much more in common than I expected , '' ex-Pentagon chief writes . I had blown up at ( National Security Adviser Thomas ) Donilon and the vice president at a meeting on Libya on March 2 and at House Defense Appropriations chair Bill Young on the third , and had come close to openly arguing with the president in the NSC meeting that same day , and had gone off on Donilon again on the fifth . Gates served as defense secretary from 2006 to 2011 . He was a key architect of the Iraq war that cost America thousands of lives.
Bob Gates ' memoir includes quitting fantasies , fears for troops . Bush and Obama `` had much more in common than I expected , '' ex-Pentagon chief writes . Gates served as defense secretary from 2006 to 2011 . He was a key architect of the Iraq war that cost America thousands of lives.