[Plains Drifter]

Yeah and laws like you’ve just mentioned allows cowards like Harry Reid to take verbal shots at people who can’t fight back. I’ll take Peter Pace any day over any of the Washington crowd especially the President I voted for twice.

[silverleaf]

There are plenty of things to bash Bush for- allowing SecDef Gates to exercise his prerogative to choose a new JCS rather than extending Rumsfelds’ man in the job-no matter how honorable the man- is not one of them. There are other good men for the job and Gates has the authority and deserves the opportunity to appoint one of his choice.

Bush has been loyal to a fault in allowing his subordinates to exercise their authority within the chain of command.