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Gates Not Seen As Primed To Clash With Obama On Missile Defense

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Friday, December 5th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford As President-elect Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers scrutinize Bush administration missile-defense plans, observers predict holdover Defense Secretary Robert Gates will not clash with Obama over keeping systems the Pentagon chief previously supported. Gates, under Bush, has been a strong advocate for the Republican administration's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and for plans to deploy U.S. missile interceptors and radars in Poland and the Czech Republic. Still, several pundits said they do see the defense secretary as prone to…

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