Al Jazeera has a story today on its web site that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Peter Pace refused to resign and was consequently fired from his job.
"Pace said that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out saying that to quit in wartime would have let down US troops in Iraq."
So the Pentagon and Bush fired Pace after giving him an opportunity to resign. And why did they fire him? Because he was a toady, a suck-up, and in the totality of the circumstances, incompetent.
Why then do we have White House Press Spokesman Tony Snow criticizing Sen. Harry Reid for saying the same thing? See my post on June 15, 2007. To say or imply as did Snow that we civilians or Sen. Reid should not criticize military officers "in times of war" is ludicrous and irresponsible. Soldiers serve at the option of civilians. No soldier, no matter how high the rank, should be immune from criticism or calls for dismissal.
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