See, here's the problem -- Reid basically called Gen. Peter Pace, who hasn't been renominated to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an incompetent. Yeah, that's outrageous. The right likes to make a big deal out of the fact that we now have the most powerful military in history, but doesn't mention that we can't even seem to handle a bunch of yahoos with improvized weapons and no actual army. Yeah, he's doing an excellent job. That's why he wasn't renominated -- because he deserves to retire after doing such a wonderful job. The Iraq war, like every undertaking by the Bush administration, has been characterized by unimpeachable competence.
Here's the paragraph that began this round of 'shoot the stater of the obvious':
Politico:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported...
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