Robert Gates actually said...

In the event of an attack, the President has emergency authorities to direct a unified, national response.

Gates outlines the President's emergency powers in response to cyber attacks.

02/16/2011

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the Department of Defense cannot come to America's elected representatives and ask for budget increases each year unless we have done a bett...

if the supplemental is not enacted by the July 4th congressional recess, we will have to begin planning to curtail defense operations.

I suspect that that is the way it will happen in Afghanistan as well.

I am cautioned to say the Iraq war is ending, not has ended.