Peter Pace
Peter Pace
Peter Paceis a former United States Marine Corps general who served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace was the first Marine officer appointed as chairman, and the first Marine officer to be appointed to three different four-star assignments; the others as the 6th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2001, to August 12, 2005, and as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command from September 8, 2000, to September 30, 2001. Appointed by...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth5 November 1945
CountryUnited States of America
If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it,
only a small number of Iraqi security forces are taking on the insurgents and terrorists by themselves.
They absolutely did the right thing, ... The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
to what level they were visible or reviewed.
There's no doubt in my mind, in talking to him, that if he could pick his words more carefully, he would,
I was in every meeting with the joint chiefs. I was in every meeting with the combatant commanders. I went to the White House multiple times to meet with the National Security Council and with the president of the United States. I have never seen that colonel,
It does includes a call-up of reserves, it does include land forces, it does include the Navy and Air Force with their capabilities to participate,
It doesn't mean he's dead. But he's not visible publicly, and he's not been seen or reported to have been seen by anybody.
We do not have a plan that specifically says we will be down below 100,000 by the end of 2006. What we have is a plan that allows us to keep what we have today for the foreseeable future and then off-ramps and on-ramps based on conditions on the ground.
We do know that one of our planes dropped bombs on that convoy, and that's all we know right now,
We made a very thorough analysis of that recommendation, and when we got done all the chiefs agreed with the commanders in the field that the numbers of the troops in the field then, as now, are appropriate to what we were fighting.
Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments.
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.