President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and Robert GatesFrom the New York Post:
June 12, 2008 -- MIRACLES do happen: A Bush Cabinet officer has proven not only competent, but wise, honest, independent and courageous.
That man is Defense Secretary Robert Gates - who just may be the best SecDef this country has ever had.
If only he could stay on into the next administration, he might rival our greatest Secretary of War, Elihu Root, the crucial military reformer of the early 20th century.
Gates is just and deliberate, but he's wonderfully tough when it's time to make hard decisions. In his brief tenure - since Dec. 18, 2006 - he's stood up to each of the services when they deserved it.
Even more crucially (and dangerously), he's been willing to face down the plutocrats of the defense industry - the thugs in $3,000 suits who've robbed our military for decades, stealing your tax dollars.
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My Comment: A rather optimistic view on what one man can do in a massive bureaucracy. But all bureaucracies know that time is always on their side .... Gates will be gone in the next ten months .... so lets keep everything quiet until he is gone is their motto.
And they are right.
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