The US military's outgoing top commander, Gen Peter Pace, says he opposed the decision to replace him at the end of his first term.
Gen Pace said he did not resign voluntarily as he felt this would be "unacceptable" for him as a leader. "I've been told I'm done," he said. v
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Gen Pace told an audience at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, that he felt resigning during a war would be a betrayal of his troops.
"One thing that was discussed was whether or not I should just voluntarily retire and take the issue off the table," he said.
But, he said, he rejected this because he did not want anyone under his command to "think - ever - that his chairman, whoever that person is, could have stayed in the battle and voluntarily walked off the battlefield."
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On Thursday, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took the unusual step of openly criticising Gen Pace.
Senator Reid said he had told Gen Pace "he had not done a very good job of speaking out for some obvious things that weren't going right in Iraq".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759115.stmI wonder what is happening here....
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