Unlike New York Times, Fox news, CNN and TV networks, General Pace refused to lie for Bush Regime

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02142007.html

Is the Military the Last Hope?
Cracks in the Pentagon
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Is the high command of the US military breaking ranks with the Bush Regime?

With the "mainstream media," that is, the government's propaganda ministry, bombarding the American public with "news reports" from unidentified sources that the US government has proof that "the highest reaches of the Iranian government" is supplying weapons to the Iraqi insurgency, Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, demurred. General Pace told the Voice of America on February 12 that he has no information indicating that Iran's government is supplying weapons to the Iraqi insurgency.

General Pace said that "Iranians are involved," but "what I would not say is that the Iranian government, per se, knows about this . . . I would not say by what I know that the Iranian government clearly knows or is complicit."

Unlike the New York Times, Fox "news," CNN, and the TV networks, General Pace refused to lie for the Bush Regime.

Perhaps America could regain its reputation if General Pace would send a division of US Marines to arrest Bush, Cheney, the entire civilian contingent in the Pentagon, the neoconservative nazis, and the complicit members of Congress and send them off to the Hague to be tried for war crimes.

But he did the best he could and refused to lie for warmongers.

There is absolutely no doubt that Bush-Cheney and the neoconservative nazis are planning revenge against General Pace. We can only hope the general does not have a wife who works for the CIA.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. General Pace will be gone shortly if...

he don't get with the program. The Fuhrer won't put up with a general with a mind of his own. Look at the record.

[leveymg]

2. He's been pushing back for a while, as have other Chiefs

This Iran IED BS came up last Spring, and Pace refused to confirm charges levelled by Rumsfeldf and Bush. The issue went into remission.

According to Sy hersh, several members of the JCS have threatened to resign rather than carry out a plan for a preemptive attack on Iran.

If Pace or other Chiefs go, head for the hills. They're truly our last hope, if Congress doesn't wake up.

[mod mom]

5. Any hope they will stand down, instead of resigning? I don't mean a military coup

where they take over power, but just refuse to do an immoral action based on lies.

[maggiegault]

3. Indeed. Pace Thinks About His TROOPS

All that * thinks about is himself and his miserable little existence.

Human beings are mere abstractions to *. Pace is a good leader because he was a good soldier. He knows what it means to go to war. He's been there. He is always concerned for, and with, his "men" (and women, of course). That is what a good military leader does, first and foremost.

Just call Pace "Rommel" from here on out, I think that it will be a very apt analogy. Rommel stood up to Hitler on several key decisions because Rommel was more concerned with what was best for his soldiers than keeping a madman lunatic pacified. It cost The Desert Fox his life.

[Burma Jones]

4. Many Marines may not share our politics

But many of the ones I know, and I work for the USMC, are pissed off and feel betrayed.

If you get a chance, thank a Marine - and tell them you're a Lefty.......