Pentagon prepares for White House wartime change

[deminks]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - Facing the first White House transition in wartime since 1969, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a team to identify issues and potential security crises the next president and Pentagon chief must be prepared to deal with on their first day in office.

Gates also said on Tuesday he asked civilian leaders inside the Defense Department, mostly Republican political appointees, to stay in their jobs, if asked by the next president, until their successors are confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

That could ensure some continuity in management of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other issues, he said.

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He backed a proposal aimed at speeding up the process by asking presidential candidates for a list of national security experts and officials they might want to appoint to government positions after the inauguration in January 2009. People on that list could have background checks conducted in advance and prepare answers to questions the Senate poses when it considers nominations for public office.


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Why does this sound like a bad idea???

[Skink]

1. Republicans would probably want to do a security check on Richard Clarke

[bemildred]

2. This is not wartime.

This is failed imperial overreach-time. There has been no mobilization of the public, or the economy, no draft, no nothing, it's all been all mercenaries and lies about you can have guns and butter.

[robinlynne]

3. why? Because Gates happens to be another war profiteer and a Republican and part of the Carlyle gro

Seems to me that Obama will decide who will do what and when and how.
(the person Obama delegates to make that decision.)

[saigon68]

6. He is putting NEOCON Scum in charge of the USAF

They are getting ready to retrench for a while

Until they can pull the wool over the eyes of the sheep, ( Read stoopid chad punchers) one more time.

[kestrel91316]

4. We're not at "war". Bush and his profiteering murderous thiugs

invaded another country on a false pretext so they could steal money from the American people.

That isn't war - it's felony murder - times 4000+.

[RC]

5. it's felony murder - times 600,000+.

Don't forget the Innocent Iraqi's murdered daily since Shock and awe. And that is just this "bu$h's war".

[bemildred]

7. If it's not mass murder, I don't know what to call it. nt

[Owl]

8. Exactly.

[2Design]

9. we are not at war no matter how much they repeat it - bush is at war

once he leaves we can do something about this atrocity

[kimmylavin]

10. Also...

"could ensure some continuity in management of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"

This phrase doesn't exactly fill me with confidence...

[Earth_First]

11. What war?

We are currently executing a poorly run occupation and police state of a sovereign country.

What war?

[LiberalFighter]

12. Provide a Japanese class teaching hari-kari to Gates and his minions.

[LiberalFighter]

13. I hope Obama replaces Gates immediately on his first day in office.