Robert Gates actually said...

We would like to have a competition . . . and we hope that both companies will agree to participate.

Gates emphasizes the need for competition in the tanker bid process.

02/02/2010

More Robert Gates Quotes

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.

We should be able to secure our nation with a base budget of more than half a trillion dollars.

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