Do you honestly think the professional bloviators on Capitol Hill are going to miss an opportunity to diss the war, bash Bush, snark at the military, etc., just because the man in the hot seat isn’t Pace? It’ll be just as ugly for Mullen, I predict. Wait until he’s lectured ad nauseam by the likes of Carl Levin about gays in the military, the horrors of Abu Ghraib, missteps in Iraq, etc.
The Dems aren’t going to miss an opportunity to make whomever they can look bad. In fact, giving into their insane demands by firing Pace will only embolden the left further while demoralizing the right. Bush gains nothing, absolutely nothing by caving in to the likes of Levin and Kennedy. If the Commander in Chief and his SecDef are cowering in fear of hardball politics on Capitol Hill how on earth can they justify sending men and women into a hot war zone to dodge IEDs? I’m disgusted.
Instead of having one hearing with Mullens, there will be TWO with Pace and his replacement. This doubles the damage instead of limiting it.
Besides, this guy’s a clean slate. Less material for our enemies to work with. They can try but they’d look pretty stupid. It’s the “Roberts” ploy, the stealth Chairman. Like it or not, the battlefield is heavily rigged in their favor. We have to play by their rules or we’ll lose.
Also this guy wouldn’t have much access to anything the scumbags can expose like Pace.