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There were many casualties of yesterday's election, and it seems that the US Secretary of Defense is another. has resigned and has been nominated as his successor. In an IM chat I asked Matt of the milblog what he thought milbloggers would make of the choice of Robert Gates as his replacement this is what he said (and I did ask permission to quote him - I'm not quite that rude):

me: Big news about rumsfeld eh?
Think the milbloggers will be pleased with his replacement?
8:40 PM Blackfive: Some are not. They know Gates as a throwback to the cold war...like Condi.
8:41 PM Most soldiers would have liked to see Zell Miller as SecDef...
Or joe Lieberman

I'm a bit too busy fighting fires of a radio kind to do a round-up of milblog posts on the subject but feel free to add your reaction, or links to other , iraqi blogs on the subject here. And do you agree with Matt on the choice of successor?