If John McCain is elected president will David Petraeus be made Secretary of Defense?

Is this a question or a statement...?

Theres a question mark on the end so im guessing its a question.

Very interesting question. I created a copycat question for Barack Obama: http://www.hubdub.com/m18123/If_Barack_Obama_is_elected_president_will_David_Petraeus_be_made_Secretary_of_Defense

Should the question creator push back the settlement date? For the Obama question I pushed it back to the inauguration date.

@neuron - This is what we consider an event driven question, so the suspend date can be pushed back indefinitely until the SecDef nominee is named.

This would break current law, as it is on the books today. It clearly states "A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within 10 years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force." (Title 10, § 113)

@notablenotices: I personally doubt this is likely, but apparently Congress can pass a special congressional waiver to allow Marshall to serve:

http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/marshall.htm

"Marshall's appointment as secretary of defense required a special congressional waiver because the National Security Act prohibited a commissioned military officer on active duty within the previous 10 years from holding the post. Although the Senate approved quickly, questions did surface about a military leader holding a position clearly intended for a civilian. With the Johnson-Acheson competition in mind, some senators queried Marshall about his views on State-Defense relationships and service unification. Marshall noted that he had "suffered from the lack of unification throughout the war" and also that he had initiated several Army unification studies during the war period."

@neuron - Although they fudged 5 years to 10 for Marshall, Petraeus is still serving in the military and that would be a huge fudge. This is supposed to be a civilian position and although Hayden is coming to mind, this seems well outside of probable action to me. I'd suggest both of these markets be voided (sorry about your void rate, its impressive!) and resubmitted with drastically lower odds. There is some interesting speculation on other websites about other candidates for the job as well.