Gates Confirmed as Defense Secretary
By a vote of 95 to 2, Robert Gates was confirmed Wednesday as our new Defense Secretary.
Senate Democrats and Republicans lauded Gates's frankness after a day of testimony Tuesday in which he acknowledged that the United States is not winning in Iraq, and said that historians would have to judge whether the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 was correct. He also pledged to take a fresh approach to Iraq in which "all options are on the table."
Who voted against him? Two Republicans, Jim Bunning (Ky.) and Rick Santorum (Pa.)
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