PRESIDENT CITES PORTER'S PREDICTION THAT STEELERS WOULD BEAT THE SAINTS: "THAT'S THE KIND OF LEADER I NEED AT THE PENTAGON"WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Bush withdrew his nomination of Robert M. Gates for Secretary of Defense and said he has asked Steelers linebacker Joey Porter to take the job. The President said his decision was clinched following the Steelers' victory on Sunday over the Saints, which Porter boldly predicted last Wednesday. Porter was quoted in a Pittsburgh newspaper as saying, "We will come back with a victory on Sunday."
"I realized that we were heading in the wrong direction in Iraq," the President told a hastily called news conference. "Joey Porter brings a brash braggadocio to the job that has been sadly missing these past six years. He's a man who will pronounce, with cockiness and without equivocation, that victory in Iraq will occur on a certain date, regardless of whether that pronouncement is feasible."
Porter told reporters that he has the solution to move America out of its Iraqi quagmire. "We, as a nation, haven't lost our hunger to win. We're just having too many turnovers. You're not going to win the war when you have four, five turnovers per game, I mean per battle. The teams, or rather the insurgents you're playing are just too good for you to overcome that all the time."
