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DOD Secretary Gates wants to retire in 2011



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Good riddance. I still worry that even with a more Democratic Secretary of Defense we'll still get bamboozled by the Pentagon on issue after issue.

Gates, who turns 67 in September, says he wants to leave the job and retire, this time for good, sometime in 2011. "I think that it would be a mistake to wait until January 2012," he said. It might be hard to find a good person to take the job so late, with just one year to go in the president's current term. And, he added, "This is not the kind of job you want to fill in the spring of an election year."


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