So, to sum things up:

Hillary Clinton recently sent a letter to an assistant SECDEF condemning the war and Bush and demanding to know what plans the Pentagon has for our inevitable defeat.

Instead of kissing her ass, the way she expected, the Pentagon replied that she was out of line and that it was unacceptable to be discussing a defeat when the US is involved in winning the war.

And now the same democrats who normally claim that they want candor from administration officials are demanding that SECDEF Gates punish his subordinate for calling it as he saw it.