Robert Gates actually said...

I think they're very impressed with the quality of the Afghan National Army, and believe that it's making good progress.

These times of economic and fiscal stress place enormous pressure on all of us to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

I think it'll be a gradual process, much as we saw in Iraq.

The new rules will significantly raise the threshold before a service member can be investigated for his or her sexual orientation. Gates sa...