According to AP News: “Obama asks Gates to stay at Pentagon”

It’s Official - "President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in that job."

Obama is expected to announce the selection of Gates and other members of a national security brain trust next week.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081126/D94M96R80.html

Iraq war won!  90% of Obama voters clueless!  BUT Obama knows the Iraq war is won.  The true reason Obama is asking Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense is because Obama and his top political cabal know the Iraq war is won.

Feckless DEMOCRATS quietly join the "stealth USA victory parade" on Iraq.  Because of his moronic carrier landing and "Mission Accomplished" banner, Bush remains silent with ZERO creditability at this important strategic moment.  Yet the Obama Gates pick is a clarion signal to all Iraq watchers.

Bottom-line:  In picking Gates, Obama does not want to screw up this massive strategic victory in Iraq.

The Iraqi democrats have pulled it out of the fire and won.  American DEMOCRAT Barack Obama wants credit for the victory.

With the Gates pick, the American far-left is fully defeated in Iraq and the American far-left has completely withdrawn from “Iraq as a political message” – Obama proven wrong on Iraq for the whole world to see in his Gates pick...  The American far-left is proven 100% wrong on Iraq.

According to MICHAEL YON (a proven, highly accurate, independent war correspondent) writing in the New York Post: “The Iraq War is over.”

“The Iraq War is over.  Flames still burst from various sources and wild cards remain, such as the potential that Muqtada al-Sadr might stomp his feet and encourage his diminished militias to attack us.  Yet support for Sadr among Shia is hardly monolithic.  In fact, many Shia view him as a simpleton whose influence derives strictly from respect for his father.   Nobody knows what the future will bring, but the civil war has completely ended.  The Iraqi army and police grow stronger by the month, and even the National Police (NP) are gaining a degree of respect and credibility.”

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/iraqs_new_dawn_140418.htm

Furthermore, a Zogby scientific survey indicates Obama voters possess a border-line idiotic level of understanding of many key issues.

According to a  Zogby International telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide, conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points

According to Zogby International:

“Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.  The scientific survey finds most Obama voters remembered negative coverage of McCain/Palin statements but struggled to correctly answer questions about coverage associated with Obama/Biden.”

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1642