WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer, Gen. Peter Pace, will retire because any attempt to renominate him would have been a "divisive ordeal" focused on Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
Gates picked Adm. Mike Mullen, the head of the U.S. Navy, to replace Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after the Marine general's two-year term ends in September.
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