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To: Sully- who wrote (60112)	6/18/2007 11:22:22 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

so it doesnt give aid and comfort for the pres to fire the guys that reid and other critcize? that's a very skewed view of reality

To: Sully- who wrote (60112)	6/18/2007 11:25:56 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 90947

"“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.” To quit in wartime, he said, would be letting down the troops. “One thing that was discussed was whether or not I should just voluntarily retire and take the issue off the table,” Pace said, according to a transcript released Friday by his office at the Pentagon. “I said I could not do that for one very fundamental reason,” which is that no soldier or Marine in Iraq should “think — ever — that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield."

To: Sully- who wrote (60112)	6/18/2007 11:27:50 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Last February, when Gen. George Casey stepped down as the top U.S. commander in Iraq and was nominated as Army chief of staff. McCain was highly critical of his appointment, going so far as to issue an “extremely rare public reprimand” to Casey during a Senate hearing: While there are very pressing questions about the future of the Army, you will, of course, in this hearing be asked to review the mistakes in American strategy in Iraq during your command, how the previous Iraq strategy was formulated, why it failed, and why it was not changed sooner, and the lessons that were learned…And you’ll need to explain why your assessment of the situation in Iraq has differed so radically from that of most observers and why your predictions of future success have been so unrealistically rosy."