Does Gen. Pace Agree with John Kerry on Iraq?
Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told MSNBC that "winning" in Iraq would mean reducing the violence to a level that permitted the relatively stable functioning of government -- in other words: the exact "policing of terrorism" model that Bush and Cheney mocked in 2004.
Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told MSNBC that “winning” in Iraq would mean reducing the violence to a level that permitted the relatively stable functioning of government — in other words: the exact “policing of terrorism” model that Bush and Cheney mocked in 2004.
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