Breaking: Gates to Announce Gen. Pace Resignation at 1pm. News Conf.

Fox News | 06/08/2007

[tsmith130]

Foxs News Alert...that's all so far.

[elfman2]

"If this were remotely true then that would mean: A) that the Bush administration won't support it's people, and B) anyone who takes the job does so knowing that they can expect zero support from the White House. "

I could mean lots of things. One is that Pace didn’t want to go through the BS with or without Bush’s support. He may have big reservations about treating the Iraq war as a civil rather than a regional war and just said, “F this, I’m trained to win wars, not political compromises”.

[bnelson44]

Subject to paragraph (3), an officer serving as Chairman may be reappointed in the same manner for two additional terms. However, in time of war there is no limit on the number of re appointments.

[markman46]

Ya so true, and will never get by our so PC senate..
really sucks

[brityank]

See my link in #80.

[The Pack Knight]

Hmm.. Thompson/Pace? Just sayin’....

[jveritas]

I did not understand what you posted AC, can you please explain again? Thank you.

[NormsRevenge]

because of Iraq.. ap lays it on heavy here in this excerpt

Washington can never have enough scapegoats on hand.

Mullen tabbed to head Chiefs of Staff ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847108/posts?page=13#13

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Gates said that Mullen has the “vision strategic insight and integrity to lead America’s armed forces.”

At the same time, he conceded he wished “it were not necessary to make a decision like this.”

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for two years, and vice chairman for the previous four, Pace has been involved in all of the key decisions leading to the invasion of Iraq, and the planning for the post- Saddam Hussein era.

The war, now in its fifth year, has claimed the lives of more than 3,500 U.S. troops, and has become intensely unpopular with the public.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Most Chairmen serve two 2-year terms, for a total of four years, but they have to be renominated and get confirmed in the Senate at the end of the first term before starting the second. That’s what’s going on here with Pace. He and the Vice Chair would have had to go through the Levin-McCain meat grinder before starting his second term, IF he somehow managed to get re-confirmed by the ‘Rat controlled Senate.

[bnelson44]

“I concluded that because Gen. Pace has served as chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the last six years, the focus of his confirmation process would have been on the past rather than the future,” Gates said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19112660/

It’s Iraq.

[theFIRMbss]

>Pace will write a tell all book and slam the Administration for the way it handled the war

Maybe. Remember
Admiral Boorda? He wrote
only a short note...

[Kaslin]

Why General Petreaus?

Who are Conway and Mattis?

[bnelson44]

Admiral Mike Mullen

A native of Los Angeles, Admiral Mike Mullen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968.

He commanded three ships: the gasoline tanker USS Noxubee (AOG 56), the guided missile destroyer USS Goldsborough (DDG 20), and the guided missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG 48).

As a Flag Officer, Adm. Mullen commanded Cruiser-Destroyer Group 2, the George Washington Battle Group, and the U.S. 2nd Fleet/NATO Striking Fleet Atlantic.

Ashore he has served in leadership positions at the Naval Academy, in the Navy's Bureau of Personnel, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and on the Navy Staff. He was the 32nd Vice Chief of Naval Operations from August 2003 to October 2004.

His last operational assignment was as Commander, NATO Joint Force Command Naples/Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe.

Adm. Mullen is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and earned a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School.

He became the 28th Chief of Naval Operations in July 2005.

For a longer version of this biography, please click here.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Lieutenant General James T. Conway, USMC

Lieutenant General James Mattis, USMC

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

When I say “He is too good for us,” I don’t mean he thinks he is too good for us. I mean that he is too good for our immorality loving Nation. Not too many people want someone to remind them of truth and morality anymore.

[PISANO]

Yet another after effect of our "teach 'em a lesson" stay at home Republicans!

This in NOT George Bush's fault but THEIRS!!

While I would PREFER a FIGHT rather than capitulation, IMHO it may not be wise during an ongoing WAR.

[RedRover]

Thanks, brit.

[Cicero]

Democrat senators have been publicly attacking Pace for some time for his remarks about homosexuals in the military—which only happen to be supporting the official policy agreed to by clinton, “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

It’s obvious that the Democrats leaned on Bush to get rid of Pace, and Bush agreed.

And I’m sorry to say that it’s not surprising. Bush has a history of standing up for a few of his PERSONAL friends—Miers and Gonzalez, for instance. But he also has a history of not standing up for loyal servants of his administration and this country. The list is a long one. Scooter Libby comes to mind, and the border agents who tried to stop a drug smuggler, and the marines at Haditha, and on and on.

Bush bends over backwards to be nice to the likes of kennedy and clinton, but he won’t lift a finger to help his loyal supporters. I’m sorry, because he doesn’t seem like that kind of guy when you watch him, but he just keeps doing it.

Pace is being punished for speaking out frankly on what is official policy—that homosexuals are not permitted to flaunt their sexual relations in public while they are serving in the military. He also mentioned that public adultery is not permitted, but no one noticed it.

[bnelson44]

Pace Faces Tough Questions From Young Citizens

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii, June 6, 2007 – Marine Gen. Peter Pace has faced tough questions from the president, the National Security Council and members of Congress. The toughest questions, however, seem to come from the nation’s youngest citizens.

During a town hall meeting here yesterday, for example, 8-year-old Katherina Daul asked the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Why do soldiers have to deploy so long?”

Pace came here specifically to meet with family members whose loved ones are among the first to be extended under the Army’s new policy. He was on his way back to the United States from a trip to Singapore and Malaysia.

Katherina came out to the base theater to see the chairman with her mom, Carol, and her 13-year-old brother Jeremiah.

Katherina’s dad — Army Capt. Kevin Daul, a chaplain assigned to the 45th Special Troops Battalion, 45th Sustainment Brigade — is due to return to Schofield at the end of this month or beginning of July. He’s been deployed in Iraq for 11 months. His unit was not affected by the extension.

“It hasn’t been easy going thru even a 12-month separation,” Carol said. “I don’t fear for his safety, it’s just hard be apart for so long,”

Schofield Barracks is the family’s first duty station and it’s the first deployment they’ve gone through, she said.

“We’ve been married for 15 years this August and we’ve never been separated for so long,” she said. The children have taken it fairly well, she said, but “sometimes there have been some emotional upsets that I know are because their Daddy is gone.”

After listening to about 45 minutes of questions and answers by the grown ups in the theater, Jeremiah raised his hand to ask Pace a question.

In a gentlemanly fashion, he thanked the chairman for meeting with them and offered a suggestion. Jeremiah said that along with rest and recuperation back home, the Army should send soldiers from Iraq for R&R at military resorts in Germany and then send the families to join them.

“That’s a great idea,” Pace said. “It would be a great way to show that we value the families. I’ll look into that.”

Pace also reassured Jeremiah that he is doing everything he can to make sure that military parents have more time to spend with their children.

After a few more questions by the grownups, Pace turned to a tiny hand in the air. “Are you trying to upstage your brother?” he teased Katherina.

The youngster took the microphone and slowly and clearly asked, “Why do soldiers have to deploy so long?”

Pace’s answer seemed to resonate with the audience as a reminder of why they were all there in the first place.

“Soldiers have to deploy so long sometimes, because soldiers love their daughters,” the chairman replied, drawing applause.

“And as much as your Daddy would prefer to be here right now hugging you, he wants to make sure that you get to grow up in the same United States that he got to grow up in,” Pace said.

“There are bad people out there who want to change that. Your Daddy is going to make sure that they don’t,” he said.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46314

He will be missed.

[Iwo Jima]

That did not happen. You’re making things up.