Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Rumsfeld part ways
i was watching this news conference yesterday in the airport but i missed this part...
a very public divergence like that is a big deal... i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall listening to their post press conference debrief... rumsfeld likes to make it pretty clear that he doesn't take shit from anybody but pace looks like he could probably hold his own quite well... it's been widely reported in the press that senior military officers can't STAND rumsfeld and i've had that perspective validated when talking to a few senior u.s. military and ex-military working with the defense ministry of a better-left-unnamed country... Submit To Propeller
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The nation's top military man, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, said American troops in Iraq have a duty to intercede and stop abuse of prisoners by Iraqi security personnel.
When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld contradicted Pace, the general stood firm.
Rumsfeld told the general he believed Pace meant to say the U.S. soldiers had to report the abuse, not stop it.
Pace stuck to his original statement.
The unusual exchange occurred during a discussion at a news conference about the relationship between U.S. forces in Iraq and an Iraqi government considered sovereign by the United States.
a very public divergence like that is a big deal... i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall listening to their post press conference debrief... rumsfeld likes to make it pretty clear that he doesn't take shit from anybody but pace looks like he could probably hold his own quite well... it's been widely reported in the press that senior military officers can't STAND rumsfeld and i've had that perspective validated when talking to a few senior u.s. military and ex-military working with the defense ministry of a better-left-unnamed country... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
11/30/2005
