Was General Pace Fired Because He Balked at Iran

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• Stars&Stripes on 3/1/06 published a poll of troops on the ground in Iraq show 72% favor a U.S. pullout within one year. http://www.estripes.com/...

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• The Joint Chiefs of Staff awarded a prize to an essay criticizing abuse of prisoners at GITMO and deviations from Geneva Conventions under current policy. Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 39, Spring, 2006. http://www.ndu.edu/... ; http://www.dailykos.com/...
• Founding member of the Delta Force says Bush may have started WWIII. Raw Story, 3/24/06. See, http://www.rawstory.com/... ;http://www.democraticunderground.com/....

A founding member of the elite counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force, suggested that President Bush's invasion of Iraq may have started World War III, according to an interview set for Saturday's Los Angeles Daily News."
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The above reports buttress the argument that has been made that the Pentagon brass are ill-disposed to any preemptive military strike against Iran, and have been actively resisting pressure for such moves from civilian Defense officials and neocons in the Administration. See, http://www.dailykos.com/...

The apparent conflict between the Administration and the uniformed military is extraordinary, rising to levels unseen since since the Vietnam War. It may well be unprecedented that the Pentagon is publicly pushing back hard against a conflict desired by the White House. This is a reversal of historical proportions for the Bush Administration.