The messenger from the Pentagon to Congress for the new president will be the same messenger used by the old preident: Robert Gates.
Gates goes to the Congress today to discuss the future of the new President’s plan for Iraq, Afghanistan and probably some on the new defense budget….
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates is arguing that Afghanistan now is America’s “greatest military challenge.”
In a national security assessment that he will give to Congress later Tuesday, Gates also says the international effort to fight Afghanistan’s growing violence has been “less than stellar” so far.
In a copy of the testimony obtained by The Associated Press, Gates says it will take a long and difficult fight to rout insurgents and help develop an Afghanistan that rejects the Taliban and backs its elected….
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Read the rest:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200901
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