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Mudville Gazette: Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
First, your U.S. history trivia for the day: Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War throughout World War Two under Democrat Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was a Republican. ***** And now back to the news. If the rumors are true, then Politico gets the headline right: Gates agrees to stay on under Obama. Thats not the same as saying Obama to keep Gates on at SecDef. Both might be true, but there was no b without a, and as a certain... read ...
DC Physics
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Really. Sticking with Robert Gates as Sec Def?It’s “a show of bipartisan continuity in a time of war that will be the first time a Pentagon chief has been carried over from a president of a different party.”
First time? Um, no.
Right on. And on Robert Gates will be “providing the new president with a Republican presence in his cabinet and a familiar face to lead troops during two ongoing wars.”
Yeah, Robert Gates. ...
AT THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE, a look at the U.S./Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, and some thoughts on th…
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AT THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE, a look at the U.S./Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, and some thoughts on the Gates retention.
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Gates
Belmont Club —
The Mudville Gazette comments on reports that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, a development that Jules Crittenden sarcastically refers to as Obama’s vote for Bush. The Mudville Gazette also notes Obama has shifted his policy on Iraq for the third time altering “a campaign-era demand that the U.S. Congress ‘must approve’ it [SOFA] to a simple acknowledgment that Congress ’should review’ the agreement.” That’s his third major shift in Iraq policy, by the way. The first was ‘clarifying’ that “immediately ...
