Unfortunately this is what happens when:
1. The administration cedes leadership and self neuters themselves - I would think Gen Pace deserves a more rigorous defense than AG Gonzalez is receiving
2. Political correctness is applied to national security
3. Liberals show themselves for their true feelings of uniform personnel
4. Democrats are elected
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070614/D8POHGRO0.html
Military Officers Now Targets on Hill
Key passages:
- On Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates made the stunning announcement that he would not recommend Pace to serve a second two-year term as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Marine Corps four-star general had not been a target previously of Democrats' ire on the war, but Gates said lawmakers made it clear the confirmation process would be ugly.
- Tauscher, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Pace lost standing among members in March when he said homosexual acts were immoral and that the military should not condone the behavior by allowing gays to serve openly. He later apologized, including in a personal letter to Tauscher, for expressing what he said were his personnel views.
- Tauscher said his comments on gays "showed his ignorance" and "had to be deeply discounted because they came from a man who had presided over a war that we got into on a lie and what I consider to be a serious dereliction of duty in having our troops and our readiness so destroyed by the policies of this administration."