U.S. Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates To Stay On In A President Obama Administration

Common Ground for Defense Chief and Obama
-- New York Times

WASHINGTON — As defined by his commander in chief, the mission of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates for the last two years has been to win the war in Iraq.

But beginning on Jan. 20, Mr. Gates’s mission will be to end the war in Iraq, assuming the Pentagon boss stays in his post under an agreement with a new commander in chief, President-elect Barack Obama.

That contrast might seem to leave Mr. Gates consigned to serious whiplash.

While Mr. Obama campaigned on a pledge to withdraw all American combat brigades from Iraq within 16 months, or by May 2010, Mr. Gates has spent his time at the Pentagon arguing a Bush administration position that has opposed setting strict timetables for withdrawal.

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