Real Reason for General Pace's Departure

[erpowers]

A few months ago when Robert Gates announced that General Pace would not attempt to keep his position as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gates claimed that Pace was leaving in that the Bush Administration did not want heated debate over Pace in that he was a supporter of the surge. I think it is possible that the real reason Pace was not kept was that he had turned against the surge. General Pace is expected to recommend that the president reduce the number of troops in Iraq. It is also expected that Pace will argue that keeping the current level of troops in Iraq could hurt the military. It seems that it would have been bad for the Bush Administration to have the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying the surge is not working and the military is at the breaking point. They would not have been able to argue that he was just a cut and run liberal, or that he did not know what he was talking about in that he did not know what was going on on the ground in Iraq. So, what do other think? Was Pace pushed out because he no longer agreed with the Bush line? We have seen in the past with a number of people that Bush will push those people out of their jobs when they no longer agree with him.

[AlCzervik]

1. I think Pace would have never made through his confirmation hearing and i have no reason to think

he wasn't for the surge, Pace is a political animal as shown by his letter to Judge Walton about Libby.