ricks.foreignpolicy.com - 4/4/2009
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Until now, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates has been Washington's bipartisan heartthrob. But as he settles in with the new
administration, suspicion is growing among his old Republican buddies. There is
growing belief on the right that President Obama will use him for political
cover to slash ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/7/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The big news from yesterday (still settling in
across Washington) is that President Obama and Defense Secretary...
Robert Gates teamed up to propose a sweeping overhaul of the defense budget--calling for the elimination of unnecessary systems and ...
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Media Reports Major Defense Budget Cuts As Obama ...
blog.wired.com - 4/6/2009
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blog.wired.com —
Defense Secretary Gates just proposed the most sweeping
overhaul of America's arsenal -- and of the Pentagon...
budget -- in decades. Major weapons programs, from aircraft carriers to next-gen bombers to new school fighting vehicles, will be cut back, or...
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Gates Pushes for Radical Overhaul of Pentagon Arsenal
blog.wired.com - 4/7/2009
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blog.wired.com —
That didn't take long. It's only been a
few hours since Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed a...
radical overhaul of the Pentagon's arsenal. And already, Congress is lashing out at the plan. Republican Senator James Inhofe, for one, called it...
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Congress Shoves Back on Pentagon Reboot
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Will The GOP Turn On Gates?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Tom Ricks thinks so: There is growing belief on the right that President Obama will use him for political cover to slash weapons programs and the defense budget...My bet is that Gates will stay on until about this time next year, and leave when the QDR (Quadrennial Defense Review) is done. By then, I predict, Republicans will be crying, "Bobby, we hardly knew ye." ...
Conservatives Suffer From Fuzzy Memory on the Defense Budget
democracyarsenal.org —
... Conservatives have apparently decided on their strategy for criticizing President Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates' 2010 DOD budget: Ahistoricism. This from AEI's Tom Donnelly via Tom Ricks: ...
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