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Pace didnt get FIRED.

He wasn’t reappointed for a second term as JCS. The JCS chairman is appointed for a TWO YEAR term.

Good God what a bunch of hysterical ignorant Bush bashers this place has become, Exactly as AP intended when it picked up the Pace interview (which never should have been granted) and spun the story.

I stand by my military training that active duty personnel especially generals don’t give press interviews about the decisions of their superiors regarding their hiring and firing and nonselection for jobs. If Pace did not criticize the POTUS, he put himself in position to be exploited by the press as if he did. Maybe he ought to re-read the memoirs of Patton and McArthur.

I suspect Gates has good reason for wanting his own man as JCS, and a Navy Admiral to boot, in the JCS job - given the defense issues that lie ahead in the next two years.

It is also entirely the NORM for a JCS chairman with 40 years of military service to be asked if he wanted to retire. Any job after this is a step down. Of course his “career” is over. No 4 star wants to go to work next week for a new boss in his old job.

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a moron triple dipshit

I suspect Gates has good reason for wanting his own man as JCS, and a Navy Admiral to boot, in the JCS job - given the defense issues that lie ahead in the next two years.

Then he should have said so, not, in effect, bash Pace as being controversial...

Pace didnt get FIRED.

He wasn’t reappointed for a second term as JCS. The JCS chairman is appointed for a TWO YEAR term.

I'm sure you're correct, although its pretty much just semantics, but you are the one who said any general, meaning Pace, presumably, who talked about his career or questioned his superiors in public should be fired. Yes, you said "fired". I'm not sure why you said he deserved to be fired, if it is your opinion that this was not a firing.

As far as the Bush-bashing goes, it may be getting a little out of hand, but Bush has brought this on himself. It's not just the questionable judgement with the immigration bill or allowing the hanging of people out to dry (Libby, Border Patrol, US Marines). I think what has driven many over the edge is the apparent complete contempt with which he now holds the very people who put him in office. Not only does he ignore the wave of protest from conservatives regarding the amnesty bill, but he derides us in public, saying we don't want to do what's right for America and calling Minutemen and their supporters "vigilantes", all the while cozying up to the very people we put him in office to counter. That's a betrayal of the first order. In the same way that a general shouldn't insult his boss in public, an elected official has no business insulting his boss in public. Bush's boss is the portion of the electorate that put him in office.