Breaking: Joint Chiefs Chairman Pace replaced.

[kpete]

Breaking: Joint Chiefs Chairman Pace replaced.

MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ reports, “Pentagon sources are telling NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski that Defense Secretary Gates has replaced Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Adm. Mike Mullen. He is currently the Navy’s chief naval officer.”



UPDATE: Loren Thompson, head of the Lexington Institute think tank, wrote in February: “there is speculation that the widely-liked Mullen is actually being groomed to replace Gen. Peter Pace when he departs as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the fall. Pace’s early departure is said to be related more to the triggering of certain retirement benefits than his close association with the discredited former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/08/breaking-joint-chiefs-chairman-pace-replaced/

[soothsayer]

1. What, Pace said 'no' to bombing Iran?

[Fridays Child]

2. You've probably nailed it.

[underpants]

4. Gates is getting rid of the Rummy operative

Just a guess

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. BINGO! Does that mean Mullen said yes?

:scared:

[seemslikeadream]

3. Pace: No Evidence Tying Iranian Government To Smuggled Explosives

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:NaTxNEN65f4J:thinkprogress.org/2007/02/12/pace-iran-iraq/+Pace+iran&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

FLASHBACK: Pace Contradicted Rumsfeld Over Iranian Involvement In Iraq
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:rHrFJDUMHX4J:thinkprogress.org/2007/02/16/rumsfeld-pace-iran/+Pace+iran&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

[Solly Mack]

5. Sec-of-Def Gates Press Briefing in 10 minutes regarding Pace

CNNI carrying it.

Any others?

[DS1]

6. Well, the first Marine in that position didn't last too long

Unsurprising, really, the branches swing their budgets around the Pentagon like they are their dicks

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

7. Gates is live on C-Span 1 now... n/t

[MiniMe]

8. Why the navy guys all of a sudden? This isn't a naval war.

Petreaus is navy also. Seems to be a bit strange for a ground war.

[hatrack]

9. Well, the Army guys are just so . . . busy these days . .

:eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Patreaus is Army

your thinking Centcom, and that is Adm Fallon

[MiniMe]

12. Thanks for the correction

I'm not sure who I was thinking of. But I know that there is another Navy guy in charge of something over there. I remember thinking it was strange at the time.

:toast: