Posted on 06/15/2007 8:17:05 PM PDT by keats5
In his first public comments on the Bush administration's surprise decision to replace him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace disclosed that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out. To quit in wartime, he said, would be letting down the troops. Pace, responding to a question from the audience after he spoke at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday evening, said he first heard that his expected nomination for a second two-year term was in jeopardy in mid-May. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on June 8 announced Pace was being replaced. "One thing that was discussed was whether or not I should just voluntarily retire and take the issue off the table," Pace said, according to a transcript released Friday by his office at the Pentagon. "I said I could not do that for one very fundamental reason," which is that no soldier or Marine in Iraq should "think ever that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield. "That is unacceptable as a leadership thing, in my mind," he added. Gen. Peter Pace: 'I've Been Told I'm Done'
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I’ve been mad at Bush for a few years, but he lost me for good when he got rid of Rummy. Pace’s departure is just another in the line of quisling decisions from our formerly staunch president.
Just another brick in the wall.
What do you have to say now.
The rest of my thoughts on this issue are not appropriate to print!
Bingo.
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Gen. PETER PACE remarks at Veterans Day Ceremony (”Today, we fight a real enemy.”)
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520466/posts
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Transcript: Gen. PETER PACE on ‘FOX News Sunday’
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1546978/posts
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PACE Casualty of Party Politics (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell)
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849432/posts
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Report: PACE departure linked to remarks on Gays in the Military
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849707/posts
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Somehow methinks he was dumped not because of what he would have said of the past but for what he might say about the future. Let's say he was in the line of Generals that got the 'Shinsecki'.
Aloha Ronnie, I’ll ping you to an outstanding Dennis Miller Rant....you will love it, I think!
Pace is very well respected by the Marines I know. They have always said they would follow him anywhere, anytime.
Thank you for the links, Ronnie.
No act of honesty goes unpunished, you know.
It seems that he has let a lot of good people go, rather than fight. The ones that I can think of right off hand are; John Bolton, Porter Goss, Rummy, Pace. It seems that he puts in these "fighters" and then doesn't back them up. That isn't entirely true, he did back Rummy, up to a point. But it does seem like when the dems get vocal he eventually caves, the 16 words come to mind.
bttt
God bless Peter Pace....
We were blessed to have him.
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