Military Officers Now Targets on Hill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he had lost confidence in Gen. Peter Pace and was happy to learn the four-star general will not remain chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Reid also said he was concerned Gen. David Petraeus might not be offering an honest assessment of the Iraq war.

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Pace to Lose Post As Joint Chiefs Head

Bitter divisions over the Iraq war, particularly on Capitol Hill, led the Bush administration to change course and replace Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a grim Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.

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If you can't find stories about Iraq in your daily newspaper, don't be confused. The fighting in Iraq has taken a turn because of the surge. Al-Qaeda is being hunted down and will be defeated in Iraq. The Iraqi's are standing up for freedom.

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Now that President Bush and Gen David H Petraeus have charted their course for the Iraq war, Democrats in the Senate say one of their proposals aimed at shifting the president's strategy is finally close to winning enough Republican support for a real chance at being approved.

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A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to "dissolve Saddam's military and intelligence structures," a plan that the envoy, L Paul Bremer, said referred to dismantling the Iraqi A …

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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to tell President Bush to cut the US footprint in Iraq next year by almost half, according to an article in Friday's (registration-restricted) LA Times.

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Fiddling With War Plans by Burt Moore Posted: 07/19/2007

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In his first public comments on the Bush administration's surprise decision to replace him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace disclosed that he had turned down an offer to voluntarily retire rather than be forced out.

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Senator Harry Reid delivered a critical assessment of Gen. Peter Pace's performance and demanded a "fair, honest and frank" report about conditions in Iraq.

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Last week's Cable disturbing display of misguided news priorities was on vivid display during the Hilton media circus.

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The Bush administration yesterday attempted to wipe the slate clean on the Iraq war and chart a new way forward with the surprise announcement that it was replacing General Peter Pace as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

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Pace has been contentious in his role as chair of the Joint Chiefs, not only for his handling of the Iraq war but for his religious fervor in supporting Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

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WASHINGTON, June 8 — Gen.

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Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war.

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The six retired generals who stepped forward last spring to publicly attack Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war had to overcome a culture of reticence based on civilian control of the military.

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BEIJING (AP) China's military is proposing officer exchanges and other confidence-building measures with the U.S. Army and may be inching closer to setting up a "hotline" for emergency communication with Washington, the top U.S. general said Friday. However, Marine Gen.

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SUMMARY: The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace, says that homosexuality is immoral. He later modified that statement by saying he should have said only that he supports the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Iranian weapons found in improvised explosive devices in Iraq and the capture of some Iranians did not by themself implicate Tehran, the head of the U.S. military's joint chiefs of staff said on Tuesday.

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Noteworthy: this is Voice of America -- the government press -- publicizing what amounts to anti-administration dissent from the highest officer in the United States Military.

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In his first wide-ranging interview, the No 2 US commander in Iraq conceded Sunday that a military "surge" escalation would not be enough to rescue Iraq, advocating economic and political changes as well, as top Democratic lawmakers in Washington stiffened their opposition to any …

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Asked by one interviewer whether the United States is winning the war in Iraq, Pace replied: "You have to define 'winning.' I don't mean to be glib about that.

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Gen Pace said the conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan meant some precision weapons and intelligence systems were already in use and could not be immediately be deployed elsewhere.

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A congressional field hearing on immigration came to a stunning halt Monday when General Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, broke down in tears talking about his Italian immigrant father and the opportunities his parents gave their children by coming to the Un …

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Two sources involved with the inspections, one Iraqi official and one U.S. official, said abuse of prisoners was found at all the sites visited through February. U.S. military authorities confirmed that signs of severe abuse were observed at two of the detention centers.

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