Gates Forced Pace To Resign To Avoid Congressional Oversight Of Iraq War

thinkprogress.org — Today, Gates announced: "However, after consultations over the course of several weeks with Republican and Democratic senators, I concluded that because Gen. Pace has served as chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the last six years, the focus of his confirmation process would have been on the past, rather than the future." Jun 8, 2007 View in Crawl 4