According to a recent statement released from Marine General Peter Pace's Pentagon office, the presiding Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refused to resign voluntarily when asked to do so by Robert Gates.
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Perhaps the most interesting twist to this recent discovery is General Pace's reason for refusing to quietly resign.
According to Pace, no soldier in Iraq should "think — ever — that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield."
Nevermind that General Pace hasn't come anywhere near an actual battlefield in Iraq. Nevermind that General Pace has been busying himself by demonizing homosexuals, even those presently serving in Iraq. Nevermind that General Pace doesn't know the difference between 3,000 dead US servicemen and 3,500 dead US servicemen. Nevermind that General Pace politicized his role as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff repeatedly during his tenure, most recently by publishing a letter in defense of convicted perjurer Scotter Libby. These inconvenient facts never entered the general's decision making process when he considered Gate's request to resign.
Instead, we are supposed to believe that General Pace was fighting for the troops by refusing to resign. Unfortunately for General Pace, the men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces will be better off without him.