Pace to Rumsfeld: FACE!

Making Light reports – Marine Gen. Peter Pace, THE military man in Washington, openly defied Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in public yesterday, after Rumsfeld tried to correct him.

via Making Light
He said soldiers who hear of but don’t see an incident should deal with it through superiors of the offending Iraqis.
That’s when Rumsfeld stepped to the microphone and said, “I don’t think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it. It’s to report it.”
Pace then repeated to Rumsfeld that intervening when witnessing abuse is the order the troops must follow, not just reporting it.
Do you know what we just saw? We just saw the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tell the Secretary of Defense to sit down and shut up. In public. In front of reporters.

I doubt Rumsfeld will resign. He doesn’t have that much tact. And yes, General Pace may lose his job, but the damage has been done…

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