The Truth Comes Out
|One of the bigger news items this week was the announcement that General Peter Pace would not be recommended for a second term as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. The reason given was that the Democrats would fight his nomination:
On Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made the stunning announcement that he would not recommend Pace to serve a second two-year term as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Marine Corps four-star general had not been a target previously of Democrats’ ire on the war, but Gates said lawmakers made it clear the confirmation process would be ugly.
“It would be a backward looking and very contentious process,” Gates said at a Pentagon news conference.
What is interesting about this is that the Democrats are trying to spin this as that they are against Pace’s nomination because of the handling of the Iraq War. This reasoning is highly flawed when the Democrats overwhelmingly voted to confirm the current US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus and also voted to confirm General George Casey as the Chief of Staff of the Army. Both of these generals have much more to do with Iraq War policy than General Pace and yet they were overwhelmingly confirmed.
So obviously there is another reason for the Democrats vowing to fight any nomination of General Pace and at the very tail end of this AP article is the real reason why the Democrats would fight Pace’s nomination:
Tauscher, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Pace lost standing among members in March when he said homosexual acts were immoral and that the military should not condone the behavior by allowing gays to serve openly. He later apologized, including in a personal letter to Tauscher, for expressing what he said were his personnel views.
Tauscher said his comments on gays “showed his ignorance” and “had to be deeply discounted because they came from a man who had presided over a war that we got into on a lie and what I consider to be a serious dereliction of duty in having our troops and our readiness so destroyed by the policies of this administration.”
This is just another further example of the politicization of the military I have been talking about. Now if an Army general says anything against gays that is reason to lose their job; who cares how competent he is, what matters is if he is on board with members of Congress’s homosexual agendas.
Ah yes, the pussification of the military…the reason I never make on-the-spot corrections of minorities or females anymore. It's only a matter of time before some gay dude cries to the EO rep after I bust his balls over some tongue ring or for wearing cologne in the field.
Mark, Your right on the spot. I had a female-black e5 in 2002. She never failed to attempt to use her double minorty. Going over my head to the black platoon sergeant whenever I corrected her. I finally tired of trying to enforce standards and let her go her way. This was easy, as she was also the company EO rep.
One day the platoon sergeant asked where she was, and I said "doing EO stuff I guess". He jumped me saying,"she is in your squad Sergeant. She needs to report to you". I jumped back saying, "Good. I'm glad you understand that Sergeant, now would you explane it to her, She seems to think she works for you, and doesn't need to inform her squad leader as long as YOU know.
My feelings on Aviation Support Units is not high and after 20 years of support units, it never will be. I volunteered for any and all duties that took me out of the unit, to include Force Protection at Taji in Iraq.
Weekly EO classes in a war zone?! WTF, 1st CAV DIV! F-ing peace time, (PC) leadership!
I heard the real reason he is gone is because he does not like CORN on his pizza and well we Americans cant have someone as undiplomatic as that controlling the most powerful military in the world CAN WE!!!!! If he would of been more open to CORN on his pizza such as the Germans or Italians he will of easily been nominated for another term…..duh
I understand that the GOP Senators were none to happy with Pace either. I'm betting that was the deciding factor. How fast can we run away from Bush ?
Mark, I take it you are not an Aqua Velvet field soldier.
I feel a need to reply and attempt to clarify a lot of things you guys over there need to know.We here in the US have the same same thing going on as in Iraq:WE just aren't shooting or car bombing each other yet.Give it a bit more time and it will be on.
Nope…only the finest Douche Gabbana, Giorgie W. Armani, Darfur Noir, or Calvin Klein & Hobbes for me, Hamilton. I want the enemy to be swooning with meterosexual bliss as he inhales his last whiff of
grapeshotfragarance when I give him the sword ofdeathlove.It might interest you military guys (and girls – if any read here???) to hear some of the same stuff outside the military….
At a recent get together (last couple of years), the largest American teachers union got together to discuss the dire situation in some schools and problems of test scores and Columbines and bullying and everything else……and what did they decide was the most important issue facing our schools today? —- equal rights – meaning – making sure we have the correct sensitivity to Gay rights issues….and speaking out against the war in iraq….
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