Pace yourself

Hats off to Marine General Peter Pace who refused to step down voluntarily as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Pace explained, stepping down from that position in a time of war would be letting down the troops. As a result, he was dragged, kicking and screaming, from his cushy office in the Pentagon.

The irony, of course, is Pace's misrepresenting the reality of his GI's progress in Iraq, a "progress" he parrots from the the delusions of Cheney and Bush. Does Pace really consider that supporting the troops?

A lot of U.S. soldiers now lie seriously wounded or dead as a result of Pace's "support." Troops who are engaged in a hopeless war they are still fighting despite having lost it a long, long time ago.