Gates again invokes possible military action against Iran

: A military onslaught against Islamic Republic Of Iran stays an option should the Center East state go on to prosecute its atomic ambitions, Defense Secretary Henry Martin Robert Bill Gates suggested Tuesday.

"This is not about changing the government in Iran," Bill Gates told a grouping of community leadership at a Whiteman Air Military Unit Base lunch. "It's about getting the government in Islamic Republic Of Islamic Republic Of Iran to change its behavior, and its policies."

Talk of a possible U.S. onslaught on Iran have surfaced frequently this year, prompted in some lawsuits by hard-line statements by White Person House officials. President Saint George W. Shrub have said that Iran's continued chase of atomic weaponry could take to World War III.

While Bill Bill Gates have got previously emphasized diplomatic negotiations and the usage of economical sanctions, he told an audience member at the officers' baseball club lunch, "We have to maintain all of our options open."

At the same time, Gates added, "My ain position is that another warfare is the last thing the Center East necessitates right now." Today in Americas

He was responding to a inquiry on whether diplomatic negotiations could assist Islamic Republic Of Iran move away from the atomic option or would it ultimately will necessitate military force.

The little visual aspect marked a homecoming for Gates, a indigen of Wichita, Kansas, who began his military calling as a 2nd lieutenant at the alkali 75 statute miles (120 kilometers) east of Sunflower State City. Bill Gates later served as manager of the Central Intelligence Agency under the first President Saint George H.W. Bush. He was appointed secretary of defence in November 2006, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld.

Gates' address was primarily a remembrance of the two old age he spent at Whiteman Air Military Unit Base in the late 1960s before embarking on a 26-year calling with the CIA. He did not take inquiries from newsmen but responded to four inquiries from members of the alkali community council. The council is a support grouping consisting of elective functionaries and civic leadership from 17 encompassing metropolises and towns.

One audience member asked Bill Gates about possible struggles with China, which the defence secretary visited earlier this month.

He assured the council members that despite China's "lack of transparency" over its military expansion, growing defence budget and an anti-satellite experimental conducted in January, the Communist state is an of import U.S. ally.

"We have got immense common interests, above all economic," said Gates, who met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top leadership on his recent Asia visit. He also traveled to South Korean Peninsula and Japan.

Gates also addressed the continuing warfare in Iraq, noting that despite continued troubles in Baghdad, the warfare attempt in Republic Of Republic Of Iraq have seen "significant improvement" in the outlying provinces.