with iraq and afghanistan, and, also, allowing secretary gates to continue the work of changing the culture within the pentagon, moving it away from the sort of cold war mentality he inherited to a certain degree, to much more rapid-fire counterinsurgency tragedy, not only in the way the pentagon thinks about war-fighting but the promotion of colonels to big dear generals and the kind brigadier jerges and the kigene culture, and, whether all of that will be accomplished by the time he leaves next year but he s given the time and space to p yo pursue it fully. martha: thank you, major garrett at the skwluswhite house. bill: 22 minutes before the house, former house majority leader tom delay and rod blagojevich, both insisting they did nothing wrong, two doubled politician run out of office and it now turns out there may be