Pace says he refused to quit voluntarily - Yahoo! News

Pace says he refused to quit voluntarily - Yahoo! News

I am having hard time understanding what chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace meant when he said that to quit in wartime would be letting down the troops.

The way our system works is that the military officials work under the supervision of an elected government. Secondly, the war in Iraq is in a very critical phase at this time. Thirdly, replacing General Pace before October 1, 2007 might have been a good decision.

General Pace has not been candid in his assessment of Iraq. It is not necessary for us fight all wars that the President likes. War has to be the last of all the solutions to any dispute. At the end of the day someone would have to take the responsibility for our inability to win Iraq war. There can be a long debate about whether we are winning or not winning the war in Iraq.

If we can't win a war after (a) Breaching the sovereignty of a nation, (b) Having thousands of war causalities, (c) Breaching the Geneva Convention and (d) Cooking up the intelligence to make a bogus case for war in Iraq, we need to evaluate our capabilities because next war may not be as small as this one.

It would have been better if General Pace made the way for his replacement so that the country can evaluate its new strategy in September 2007 when many GOP members of Congress would be forced to take a stand on Iraq war or lose 2008 elections.

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