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Some thoughts on Peter Pace
RedState.org ^

Posted on 12/05/2005 4:22:08 AM PST by PurpleMan

Some thoughts on Peter Pace Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace emerged last week as an important surrogate in the "public opinion" theater of the Iraq war. He's powerful and effective because even John Kerry and Jack Murtha don't want to go on record contradicting the military's top brass about the progress being made in Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at academicelephant.redstate.org ...


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Cogent analysis of the Chairman's "coming out" press conference.
1 posted on 12/05/2005 4:22:08 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

Great article..
General Pace:
So I say to those now who say, if we just stop fighting in Iraq, if we just stop fighting in Afghanistan, if we just stopped worrying about and chasing the terrorists -- that this would go away -- I say you need to get out and read what our enemies have said. Remember Hitler. Remember he wrote Mein Kampf. He said in writing exactly what his plan was, and we collectively ignored that to our great detriment. Now, our enemies have said publicly on film, on the Internet their goal is to destroy our way of life. No equivocation on their part."


2 posted on 12/05/2005 4:26:15 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: PurpleMan

Marines call him "Perfect Peter" and I understand they don't like him much. It seems he makes sure that nothing ever lands on him. This is what I have heard from other Marines, can't say for sure.


3 posted on 12/05/2005 4:36:13 AM PST by gopherbaroque
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To: MEG33

We ignored terrorists for years and we got 9/11. Continuing to ignore them WILL lead to the end of our way of life, if not our lives themselves.


4 posted on 12/05/2005 4:37:35 AM PST by randita
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To: gopherbaroque
"Marines call him "Perfect Peter" and I understand they don't like him much."

Who in the fu** is 'they'?

5 posted on 12/05/2005 4:41:56 AM PST by verity (Don't let your children grow up to be mainstream media maggots.)
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To: MEG33


as opposed to ...

6 posted on 12/05/2005 4:44:30 AM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom

Terrific!


7 posted on 12/05/2005 4:47:26 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: PurpleMan

He's a far more effective speaker than Miers, the guy who preceded him.


8 posted on 12/05/2005 4:47:27 AM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf. (All religious headdress). The effect will creat a huge domino effect..)
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To: verity

"Who is they"???

Excellent comment. The closer to the top on gets in any organization, the BIGGER the target one becomes, especially to the malcontents. (OUCH!)


9 posted on 12/05/2005 4:47:39 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: gopherbaroque
That's sure a nasty thing to say about someone when you 'heard' it from, you say, 'other Marines'.... 'but you can't say for sure'.

What can't you say for sure?....that you actually heard this?.....or you don't know if you believe them?

...and how many is 'other'..?

Two?.....two who might have a grief against him......twenty?

Really nasty.

I think you need to check your sources before speading gossip and innuendo.

10 posted on 12/05/2005 4:50:50 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: gopherbaroque

"Can't say for sure"...then why say it at all?


11 posted on 12/05/2005 4:53:33 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: tkathy

BTW1) different man, different service, different warfighter, different leadership ethos.

BTW2)If one is unfamiliar with the spelling of his name (that's "Myers") it begs an obvious question.


12 posted on 12/05/2005 4:54:23 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: gopherbaroque

You need to get your facts in order. First off, it's "Peter Perfect".

Second, I was a Marine for 28 years and I've known Peter Pace for 30 years. I've never heard anything about him that wasn't respectful.


13 posted on 12/05/2005 4:57:45 AM PST by Gulf War One
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To: MEG33
The days for "...we don't have an exit plan" are over! We have a plain spoken team that tells the truth unequivocally. General Pase, Secretary Rumsfeld, President Bush, Condi Rice, Porter Goss, and John Bolton.

Democrats Boxer, Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton, Biden, Murtha, Reid, Pelosi etc. together compose a team of Socialists who are all losers and shamefully, openly anti-American.

I watched Fox News Sunday yesterday where Chris Wallace allowed Madame Boxer to repeatedly quote from the DNC play book, that there were no WMDs; Wallace did not stop her old, dead fabrications - to his shame. I would love to hear General Pace on that subject.

14 posted on 12/05/2005 5:29:56 AM PST by yoe
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To: PurpleMan

Meyers was an ineffective speaker. Sounded like a bureaucrat more than a military man.


15 posted on 12/05/2005 5:39:50 AM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf. (All religious headdress). The effect will creat a huge domino effect..)
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To: gopherbaroque; Guenevere; darkwing104
Hello, Newbie!



darkwing104 & Guenevere ....


16 posted on 12/05/2005 6:14:31 AM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom
uh....are you calling me a newbie???? :)
17 posted on 12/05/2005 6:21:43 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: gopherbaroque

Uhhmmm...errr...Welcome to Free Republic, where nasty gossip is sure to get you started on the wrong foot...





18 posted on 12/05/2005 6:27:39 AM PST by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Guenevere
lol - no!!! I'm calling our new Marine diss'er, gopherbaroque (sign-up date October-01-05) a newbie!! I simply copied you on my post as a courtesy because it was your common in post #10 that drew my attention to him.

Sorry for the confusion.
19 posted on 12/05/2005 6:29:42 AM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom

LOL.....that's what I thought....:))


20 posted on 12/05/2005 7:13:15 AM PST by Guenevere
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