Gates said Tuesday he was “impressed” by statements Obama has already made on issues such as the Iraq War.

“Gates said Tuesday he was “impressed” by statements Obama has already made on issues such as the Iraq War.”
“He also said he wanted to have a responsible drawdown, and he also said that he was prepared to listen to his commanders,” Gates said. “That’s exactly the position a president-elect should be in.”

Gates said Obama impressed him last month when the two men met in the fire station at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. On the same day, Obama met with Bush and shortly before he met with Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“I was impressed by his reaching out to Admiral Mullen, to come sit down and talk with him, and he has made clear that he wants to have a regular dialogue with the chairman and the chiefs and the commanders,” he said.

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Obama is now talking, and the battle on the ground will be the deciding factor on how or when to pull out of Iraq and not the code pink or moreon.org anti-war group.

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You knew more foreign policy than anyone, you had the “solution” to the economic crisis, you would “change” the Old Politics of Washington; now it seems you are just a Politician after all!