From the Washington Times
By Bill Gertz
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is asking many of the Bush administration's 250 Pentagon political appointees to remain on the job until the incoming Obama administration finds replacements -- a move designed to prevent a leadership vacuum with U.S. troops engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The unusual request by Mr. Gates, whom President-elect Barack Obama has asked to continue in his Cabinet post, ensures that key policy positions will not be left to "acting" subordinates as typically occurs when political appointees are directed to resign during a presidential transition.
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This should come as no surprise. The reason we're not hearing more howling from the so-called anti-war crowd is because it was always about Bush, not the war.
This just goes to show what big hypocrites they are.
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