The Defense Secretary We Had

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Author(s) David Ignatius
Source The Washington Post
Date November 9, 2006
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802084.html
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Quotes-start.png "Gates embodies the group's effort to find a bipartisan policy for Iraq. In that sense, he will go to the Pentagon with an invisible mission statement that can be summed up in two words: "exit strategy." He won't want to leave Iraq quickly or dangerously, but unlike Rumsfeld, he won't fight the problem." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Gates was a good choice on the topic Nomination of Robert Gates as U.S. Secretary of Defense.