Posted on 05/17/2007 3:18:13 AM PDT by familyop
Fallon's refusal to support a further naval buildup in the Gulf reflected his firm opposition to an attack on Iran and an apparent readiness to put his career on the line to prevent it. A source who met privately with Fallon around the time of his confirmation hearing and who insists on anonymity quoted Fallon as saying that an attack on Iran "will not happen on my watch". Asked how he could be sure, the source said, Fallon replied, "You know what choices I have. I'm a professional." Fallon said he was not alone, according to the source, adding, "There are several of us trying to put the crazies back in the box."
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Ah. Here’s where it came from: Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - May 15, 2007. Italy recently became Iran’s main trading partner.
POLITICS-US: Commander’s Veto Sank Threatening Gulf Buildup
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37738
Adm Fallon was PACOM (Pacific Command) before he was CENTCOM, and I know some folks who worked for him and told me what he was like. He would never, ever refer to his superiors as "crazies."
It is easy to plant stories about Generals and Admirals.
You can put any words in their mouth you want, and reporters are pretty sure they won't even respond. IF they respond and deny this garbage, reporters will whisper "They are just trying to protect their bosses" meaning the SECDEF and the President.
“There are several of us trying to put the crazies back in the box.”
Ya gotta love that phrase though.
A Navy admiral and an Air Force sergeant from South Jersey were honored Friday night by the USO, a services support organization. Adm. William J. Fallon, former Merchantville resident and head of the U.S. Pacific Command, received the Liberty Award, the highest honor bestowed by the USO of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. Fallon, a graduate of Camden Catholic High School and Villanova University
has distinguished himself by going "above and beyond" in the mentoring of young sailors, said D.J. Stanhope, the USO chapter's executive director. He also cited the naval aviator's achievements as Navy commander in the Pacific.
A quick search on the author (Gareth Porter) reveals that he’s probably anti-defense. ...still can’t see Porter’s propaganda angle in misrepresenting Fallon as being like himself, though.
Too true. I heard that Adm Fallon said that Howard Dean eats puppies.
It would be good to know what the ACTUAL plan is for Iran. Not sure whether this is true about Adm Fallon...but our tone has changed toward Iran, and it looks like the State Dept is running things now.
What bullshit! A serving flag officer allegedly saying he will not follow orders he doesn’t like.
He could be immediately courtmartialed for insubordination, if true.
Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz could have learned much from Fox.
This so called writer has a long history of pushing the Gay agenda and lying in his opeds to push the gay agenda and trash Republicans, our military and President Bush.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=Gareth%20Porter%20+%20gay
Whenever an attack oped like this pos appears. Go a search in Yahoo with the writers + gay. Most of time, the writer has decades of writing for Gay sites and attacking the conservative position.
This recent post on Free Republic repudiates these lies and smears from this gay advocate, who appears to be suffering AIDs dementia.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834845/posts
Bush Names Lute to New Post to Support Iraq, Afghanistan Ops
American Forces Press Service ^ | Donna Miles
Posted on 05/16/2007 5:32:22 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2007 – President Bush announced yesterday that he has named Army Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, director of operations for the Joint Staff, as assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush named Lute to the new position to serve as the full-time manager for implementing and executing U.S. strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan, the president explained. Lute also will manage the interagency policy-development process for the two theaters, working closely with National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley, the Cabinet and the president.
Lute’s efforts will directly support Navy Adm. William J. Fallon, commander of U.S. Central Command; Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq; U.S. commanders in Afghanistan; and the U.S. ambassadors to Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush said.
“Nothing is more important than getting Admiral Fallon, General Petraeus, American commanders in Afghanistan, and Ambassadors (Ryan) Crocker and (William) Wood what they need, and Douglas Lute can make sure that happens quickly and reliably,” the president said.
Bush praised Lute as “a tremendously accomplished military leader who understands war and government and knows how to get things done.”
Gareth Porter has a well-documented history of embellishment, half-truths, and blame-America-first-ism.
That being said, Fallon is a professional soldier... and as such probably has little use for taking assets away from where they are needed and putting men into harm’s way simply to send a political message.
Political considerations are one of the reasons we have not taken a flamethrower to Iraq while carpet-bombing the Iranian border.
he should be charged with mutiny.
Thank you for correcting the record on Adm. Fallon.
Thank you all very much. The front-page information that some of you posted regarding Gareth Porter will be found through the search engines, thanks in part to the need to excerpt Asia Times material. :-) After another quick search, I found that Gareth Porter wrote much in favor of Hanoi during the Vietnam War.
I’ve noticed the efforts by anti-defense writers to falsely report or over-emphasize differences of opinions in the Bush Administration. ...best that I can tell, such writers accomplish little in the USA for their anti-USA cause beyond prompting us to write to our politicians for more aggressive defense. Their false reports, then, appear to be aimed at making our nation look weaker in the eyes of enemies.
Yea, but of the course the only way to put the crazies back in the box may be to attack Iran. That's were they have really high per capita crazy index.
Or we could send Pelosi, Reed, Kennedy, and others of that ilk, to GitMo, to join their fellow America haters.
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