AP – President-elect Barack Obama, second from the left, stands with, from left to right, Vice President-elect … CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama picked a national security team headed by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates on Monday, and said he wants to consult with military commanders before settling on a firm timetable to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
Obama said a newly completed agreement between Iraq and the Bush administration covering U.S. troop presence signals "a transition period in which our mission is changing" after a long war. The president-elect campaigned on a call to pull out most combat troops within 16 months of taking office, a period he said he still believes "is the right time frame."
Obama named Clinton, a New York senator, as secretary of state and said Gates would remain as defense secretary, a post he has held for the past two years.
AND MY PERSONAL COMMENT ON THIS IS....
IT'S A DOUBLE TEAM WITH BILL...unless Barack names him Ambassador to the Playboy mansion.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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