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Article: Servicemembers Legal Defense Network: Report Suggests Pace Departure Linked to Comments on Gays in the Military
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Steve Ralls of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, +1-
202-328-3244, ext. 116, sralls@sldn.org
WASHINGTON, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CNN Pentagon
correspondent Barbara Starr reported this evening that Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs General Peter Pace's departure from that post may be
linked to his recent comments regarding lesbian and gay military
personnel. According to Starr's report, Pace's comments, along with
his role in planning the war in Iraq and his support for convicted
Vice Presidential advisor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, played key roles
in Congressional opposition to Pace's re-nomination. "His recent
statements that he believed homosexual ...