Gen. Pace: Didn't know what "Assume" REALLY means
U.S. Marine General Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
“One of the mistakes I made in my assumptions going in was that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi army would welcome liberation, that the Iraqi army, given the opportunity, would stand together for the Iraqi people and be available to them to help serve the new nation,” Pace said.I'll give him credit, though, for admitting his mistake.