From: Rich Gauszka 

That doesn't necessarily mean that both sides don't have a bit of truth
about Pace's dismissal. I'm sure Joe Lieberman ( back from a trip to Israel
) is happy to have a more hawkish Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
listen to his current wailing on bombing Iran


http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/061007.html
Bush removed the two top generals overseeing the Iraq War, Abizaid and
George Casey – and last week extended the purge to Joint Chiefs chairman,
Gen. Peter Pace, who also had offended the neocons by resisting pressure
for military action against Iran.


Gary Britt wrote:
> YAWN....
>
> So he was not reappointed because all the democrats say he was too big a
> supporter of Rumsfeld and the Iraq war, and now according to this no
> name idiot he's not reappointed because he's stood up to Bush too much.
> GMAFB.
>
> Come on Rich you used to have a more critical eye with your posts.
>
> Gary
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_levey__m_070609_was_general_pace_fir
.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve been writing for over a year now that the Joint Chiefs have been
>> blocking the White House’s efforts to expand the war to Iran. No
>> matter what you might think of Gen. Pete Pace, this really is
>> TERRIFYING news, unless you crave a wider war in the Persian Gulf and
>> South Asia.
>>
>> Pace has been the most visible symbol of the push-back within the
>> military against the Long War.
>>
>> George W. Bush, in effect, just fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
>> of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, USMC. This is unprecedented, as it is the
>> first time the JCS Chair has not been reappointed.
>>
>> Pace's replacement will be Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael
>> Mullen, if the Senate approves his nomination.
>>
>> The Admiral appears to be a much more convinced true-believer than
>> Pace. Mullen was quoted in an address earlier this month to naval
>> personnel: http://starbulletin.com/...
>>
>> "The enemy now is basically evil and fundamentally hates everything we
>> are -- the democratic principles for which we stand ... This war is
>> going to go on for a long time. It's a generational war."
>>
>>
>>

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