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CNN breaks for briefing from Secretary Robert Gates [CENTCOM Commander Adm. William Fallon Resigns]
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| March 11, 2008
Posted on 03/11/2008 12:23:59 PM PDT by gondramB
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To: Dog
You were right the other day when you wrote about this.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:37:03 PM PDT
by
Cap Huff
To: gondramB
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:39:05 PM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: gondramB
I expect more Admirals and Generals to retire is ‘there’ is a plan or movement to go into Iran.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:39:22 PM PDT
by
BGHater
($2300 is the limit of your Free Speech.)
To: Cap Huff
Zinni was also a ninni. I guess Fallon will join the Rats and the board of a company selling bad investments with high commissions to junior military people.
Senior officers don’t go around contradicting their commander in chief. Bush left him around too long..that is what happens when you have a wimp as SecDef.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:40:40 PM PDT
by
Oldexpat
To: gondramB
I read somewhere within the last couple of weeks that if we see Fallon resigning for any reason then the real reason is that Bush is preparing plans to go into Iran or strike them in a major way.
He apparently is vehemently opposed to the idea.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:41:26 PM PDT
by
GulfBreeze
(There's little difference between those who are left running for GOP nod... a little but not much.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Assuming that report is true, then he should have been sacked last September.
Another case where Bush failed to clean out the deadwood right after 9/11. How many general officers and admirals were sacked in the first year of WWII?
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:42:29 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
(Charles Martel: past and future of France)
To: Cap Huff
Yep....that is what separates us from the third world dictatorship..
We don't brook a military officer telling a sitting President how to run OUR country.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:44:52 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: pierrem15
"How many general officers and admirals were sacked in the first year of WWII?" One of each: Kimmel and Short. Neither organized any meaningful defense or recon of their base at Pearl Harbor...but both found plenty of time to golf at country clubs and attend high society parties.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:45:55 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: BGHater
I guess it’s a mere coincidence that VP Cheney is also going over to ME right now.
And McCain is heading over at the end of this month. Hmmmmmm....
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:47:37 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
That report about Fallon dissing Petraeus was lamestream media b.s. Never happened.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:49:22 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: Southack
General McClellan also failed to maintain the trust of Lincoln, and proved to be frustratingly insubordinate to the commander-in-chief. After he was relieved of command, McClellan became the unsuccessful Democratic nominee opposing Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election. His party had an anti-war platform, promising to end the war and negotiate with the Confederacy, which McClellan was forced to repudiate, damaging the effectiveness of his campaign.Obama found his running mate.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:49:57 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: gondramB
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:50:09 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Reagan would have never said "She's my girl")
To: USS Alaska
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:50:25 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
To: gondramB
He’s paid to bomb whoever the cic says to not whine in the dbm
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:50:36 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(b.Hussein)
To: pierrem15
That report was not true. Bush hand-picked Fallon last year when he was head of the Pacific forces.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:50:48 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: gondramB
Fallen is the genius who recently signed an agreement with the commander of the Canadian Army under which each nation will send military personnal to the other nation in case of a domestic emergency.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:50:59 PM PDT
by
em2vn
To: blam
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:51:05 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: gondramB
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:51:30 PM PDT
by
tioga
(Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
To: gondramB
Being an Admiral, he may have some concern about all OUR SHIPS (and Sailors etc.) stuck in the Persian Gulf.. I, for one, was/am happy he was there. I don't want war with Iran, either. I'm sorry to see him leave, if this was the reason. We should have more high ranking military telling the "decider" & Company to stop banging the war drums! And the President SHOULD LISTEN. And Yes, a Pubbie all my life, first vote in 1960 for Nixon, and proud of it. Voted twice for W...
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:53:02 PM PDT
by
meema
(I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist, cynic or right wing extremist!)
To: ladyjane
Are you SURE about that??? I heard about the bad blood between the two from various other sources. Fallon seems to be a first class jackass.
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posted on
03/11/2008 12:54:13 PM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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