Why would ThinkProgress bother with the truth when they can traffic in character assassination and base slander? I await your retraction with….

Oh nevermind. That will happen when hell freezes over.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

From the Associated Press:

Marine Gen. Peter Pace said that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

To quit in wartime, he said, would be letting down the troops.

Gen. Pace, responding to a question from the audience after he spoke at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk on Thursday night, said he first heard that his expected nomination for a second two-year term was in jeopardy in mid-May.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on June 8 announced Gen. 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,” Gen. Pace said, according to a transcript released yesterday 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. Pace, whose current term ends Oct. 1, said he intended to remain on the job until then. Navy Adm. Michael Mullen has been announced as President Bush’s choice to succeed Gen. Pace, who is the first Marine ever to hold the military’s top post.

A Vietnam veteran, Gen. Pace indicated in his Norfolk comments that his experience in that war colored his decision not to quit voluntarily.

“The other piece for me personally was that some 40 years ago I left some guys on the battlefield in Vietnam who lost their lives following Second Lieutenant Pace,” he said. “And I promised myself then that I will serve this country until I was no longer needed — that it’s not my decision. I need to be told that I’m done.

“I’ve been told I’m done.”

Maybe he’ll be selling Taliban Rollon to Osama so Osama can once
again smell like shiite. He’ll be at the downtown Wal-Green
in Kabul.

Looks like the senior sycophants and pimps of both phony parties of this global corporate Empire have every reason to cooperate in keeping a lid on this schocking reality of imperial intrigue and the Roman legions’ (oops, I mean the US military’s) confrontation with the Emperor.

Hillary, Levin et al seem to be willing to keep a tight lip for this fascist corporate Empire — but. of course, their main concern is being the next Emperor or Emperess.

“Well, General Pace, there was guite a bit of discussion this February about the possibility of the Bush administration launching an attack on Iran, and as I note here from several reliable sources, including a memo that you yourself issued, there was a great deal of underlying tension among the Senior Military Officers regarding this possibility of a second ‘preemptive’ attack by the Bush administration in the Middle East on another country, Iran.”

“In fact, there was a great deal of talk in the mainstream media and here in Washington itself about a threat of senior military resignations if the Bush administration tried to launch a second attack in the Middle East on Iran instead of Iraq this time in, as I said, February of this year. Now General Pace, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, I have to ask you what your position was on nay of this talk about launching a war on Iran this February. I’m sure you are aware of what I am talking about. You seemed to be very resistant to any such preemptive war plans, yourself — and we thank you for your restraint, General — but we would like to know more about that timeframe of February of this year, and the professional military commands’ reaction to this heavily reported difference of opinion between the military and the Bush administration about any talk of launching an attack on Iran. And, General, in anticipation of your ‘good soldier’ reply to my question touching on confidential information, let me just say that I myself and several other Senators on this Committee would be entirely willing to continue this questioning in ‘Executive session’ with regard to any security issues.”

Wow, what a great, level-headed guy to have as Bush’s Cahirman of Joint Chiefs —- great that is to start a nuclear WWIII.

Additionally, Pace must have infuriated the Bush ‘nuke Iran’ cabal by going on public record with the media, and by communicating a memo to his senior services command that, “It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an order that is either illegal or immoral.” Pace made this very public shot across the Bush neocon’s bow fo war planning for nuking Iran in February, reminding the US officer corp that they would be guilty of Nuremberg war crimes for “following orders” that killed hundreds of thousands or millions.

Paul Craig Roberts wrote in “CounterPunch”, that,. “There is absolutely no doubt that Bush-Cheney and the neoconservative nazis are planning revenge against General Pace.”

Pace was also at the center of what has become known as the ‘military mutiny’ of many staff officers threatening to resign en mass, if Bush/Cheney proceeded with CONPLAN 8022 or any similar StratCom plan for launching a preemptive (or false flag contrived) nuclear attack on Iran, similar to a ‘big bang’ Bay of Tonkin incident.

There are many reasons to be very very concerned about the Bush Empire’s move now to cut Pace off at the knees, and intimidate other general officers from ever again considering refusing to follow orders to nuke anyone from this ‘Vichy American” global corporate Empire and their Commander in Chimp.

Installation of Fallon and Mullen form the yet un-bloodied Navy and the loony StartCom Command insures that when Bush schedules the next date to nuke Iran that it can’t be derailed, as it was this February.

God help us all, our children and our grand children.

shame on you

for those who know him and have worked with him, he’s a tremendously dedicated and exceptionally bright human being

and attained the rank of four star general in the Marine Corps and served as the first Marine Chairman since its formation in 1949

and why you’re some do-nothing, zero authority armchair quarterback posting garbage on a blog

put your money where your mouth is and change the world if you’re so smart and capable