Posted on 11/25/2008 1:08:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Sources tell ABC News that Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be staying on in the top Pentagon job, for at least the first year of the Obama administration. "It is a done deal," a source close to the process tells ABC News.
Gates, while a registered independent, has served numerous Republican administrations. President George W. Bush nominated Gates to replace the Donald Rumsfeld after the 2006 midterm elections, when the war in Iraq was spiraling out of control.
The former Eagle Scout is expected to be rolled out immediately after the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend as part of a larger national security team expected to include Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, as Secretary of State; Marine Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.) as National Security Adviser; Admiral Dennis Blair (Ret.) as Director of National Intelligence; and Dr. Susan Rice as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Hark!
In the distance you can hear libtards’ heads explode *pook* *pook* *pook*
This doesn’t change a thing — the fuhrer’s handlers want complete power. This is a holding action.
I’m glad to hear it; I’ll be gladder still if he leaves Petraeus in command.
This is a good pick by Obama. After all, who else is there on his ticket who can understand military action, Bill Ayers?
That ozone smell you might have just noticed is the sudden ionization of hundreds of DUmmy souls.
Hey DUmmies.....snicker*
I will support the President(-elect) when he does the right thing, such as keeping Gates.
Ha!
So... despite the “General Betrayus” hokum - the lefties finally figured out they couldn’t do better than Bush with defense.
This is one “No Change” I can believe in.
Hey Obat boy, you havent even taken the oath and yer hurtin.
Sucks to be you.
Training wheels for the kid!
I was reading this just before I saw this post. Maybe Obama see’s Gates as willing to go with his Civilian National Security Force?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday ordered his top department leaders to conduct a broad review to determine whether the military, National Guard and Reserve can adequately deal with domestic disasters and whether they have the training and equipment to defend the homeland.
The 41-page memo signaled an acknowledgment that the military must better recognize the critical role of the National Guard and Reserves in homeland defense, but stopped short of requiring many specific policy changes.
In response, Gates said that indeed the Guard and Reserves are an integral part of the force and have assumed a greater role in military operations. And he pressed his top leaders to review the training that active duty and reserve troops receive for homeland defense and civil support missions, as opposed to the warfighting now consuming them.
Most of the National Guard units have been in Iraq so how are they unprepared or untrained for homeland defense?
Good decision.
This tells me all I need to know about that pick.
President Obama will probably eventually replace Gates with Chuck Hagel, unless Obama puts Hagel someplace else from within his administration. I would be surprised, if Obama doesn’t have both Hagel and Michael Bloomberg (Obama would also need to coax Bloomberg to not run again for N.Y.C. Mayor to make this work.) somewhere in his administration at some point in the future. Yuck to both Hagel and Bloomberg!
Heh, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. 0bama is now half as intelligent as a stopped clock.
It’s very clever. While Omama is diverting everyone’s attention to Gates, nobody will focus on Jones and Rice and their anti-Israel world view. He probably also will use the opportunity to introduce a lot of domestic advisors who come from George Soros’s Center for American Progress, as did Melody Barnes and John Podesta, and nobody will notice.
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