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.
Signed,
a moron triple dipshit