Joint Chiefs Chair: I Was Forced Out

Associated Press ROBERT BURNS June 15, 2007 09:35 AM
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.

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