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Breaking: Incompetent Buffoon Honors Inept Boob

George W. Bush awarded retired General and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace with the distinguished Medal of Freedom today. As you may remember, Pace once called gays and lesbians "immoral" in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.(ThinkProgress has the audio in case you wanted to relive it). Giving this award to a certified homophobe and one of the chief architects of the Iraq debacle is a slap in the face to the estimated 65,000 gay and lesbians soldiers serving in today's military. No wait, we take that back, it's a slap in the face to anyone, anywhere who has ever served in anything remotely military-ish, ever, including our high school color guard.