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Gates a 'Done Deal' (Defense Secretary Robert Gates staying on at least a year)
abcnews.com ^ | November 25, 2008 | Martha Raddatz and Jake Tapper

Posted on 11/25/2008 1:08:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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1 posted on 11/25/2008 1:08:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


2 posted on 11/25/2008 1:09:55 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your power dry, folks)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m glad to hear it; I’ll be gladder still if he leaves Petraeus in command.


3 posted on 11/25/2008 1:11:11 PM PST by marron
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He will be the focal point for Bush's Fault™. It will be claimed that things are sooooo bad in Iraq that we cannot risk a transition.
4 posted on 11/25/2008 1:11:53 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: freedumb2003

This is a good pick by Obama. After all, who else is there on his ticket who can understand military action, Bill Ayers?


5 posted on 11/25/2008 1:11:56 PM PST by Loud Mime (We're not hateful. We respect traditional marriage - which our opponents HATE)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That ozone smell you might have just noticed is the sudden ionization of hundreds of DUmmy souls.


6 posted on 11/25/2008 1:12:53 PM PST by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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Hey DUmmies.....snicker*


7 posted on 11/25/2008 1:13:51 PM PST by icwhatudo
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I will support the President(-elect) when he does the right thing, such as keeping Gates.


8 posted on 11/25/2008 1:15:02 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Ha!


9 posted on 11/25/2008 1:15:59 PM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So... despite the “General Betrayus” hokum - the lefties finally figured out they couldn’t do better than Bush with defense.


10 posted on 11/25/2008 1:17:39 PM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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This is one “No Change” I can believe in.


11 posted on 11/25/2008 1:18:00 PM PST by Lou Budvis
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Hey Obat boy, you havent even taken the oath and yer hurtin.
Sucks to be you.


12 posted on 11/25/2008 1:18:30 PM PST by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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Training wheels for the kid!


13 posted on 11/25/2008 1:20:12 PM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: freedumb2003

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?


14 posted on 11/25/2008 1:23:32 PM PST by Sharrukin
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good decision.


15 posted on 11/25/2008 1:29:01 PM PST by ellery (It's a free country.)
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This tells me all I need to know about that pick.


16 posted on 11/25/2008 1:45:56 PM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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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!


17 posted on 11/25/2008 1:48:14 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Heh, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. 0bama is now half as intelligent as a stopped clock.


18 posted on 11/25/2008 1:50:38 PM PST by Esquilax
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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.


19 posted on 11/25/2008 1:51:09 PM PST by Piranha
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So when Osama Osama marches victoriously into Baghdad...arm in arm with Imanutjob...Hussein will have someone to blame.
20 posted on 11/25/2008 2:14:25 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bin ein beginner")
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