Snapshots From a Lost War

General Pace: Sacked so that he wouldn't have to face the music

* General Peter Pace is being replaced as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff although he had been seen as a shoo-in for a second term because his bosses didn’t want him to face embarrassing questioning on the Iraq war at congressional re-confirmation hearings.

* Stephen Hadley, President Bush’s national security adviser and chief cheerleader for the surge strategy, will no longer have anything to do with the war in a shakeup that surprised and stunned Democrats and Republicans alike.

* Republicratic Senator Joe Lieberman acted outraged that soldiers didn’t tell him to his smug face that he was sloshed on neocon Kool Aid when he was in the war zone.

* Fouad Ajami, influential Arab-American scholar and Bush apologist, described Scooter Libby as "a soldier in your — our — war in Iraq. . . . He can’t be left behind as a casualty of a war."

* The U.S. command announced that a soldier was killed by a roadside bomb, pushing the four-year death toll for American forces to 3,501. The count includes 23 deaths in the first six days of June, an average of about four a day.

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