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Title: Fallon Resigns As Mideast Military Chief (AP)
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5 ... E9GQnVpZaWHA-cPBpbwmwD8VBDUF01
Published: Mar 11, 2008
Author: ROBERT BURNS
Post Date: 2008-03-11 15:47:08 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 109
Comments: 6

Fallon Resigns As Mideast Military Chief

By ROBERT BURNS – 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East, is resigning, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

Gates said that Fallon had asked him for permission to retire and that Gates agreed.

"I believe he has made the right decision," Gates told reporters at the Pentagon. He called Fallon a very able military strategist and said he will be missed.

Fallon was the subject of an article published last week in Esquire magazine that portrayed him as opposed to President Bush's Iran policy. It described Fallon as a lone voice against taking military action to stop the Iranian nuclear program.

"I think this is a cumulative kind of thing," Gates said. "It isn't the result of any one article or any one issue."

Fallon has had a 41-year Navy career. He took the Central Command post on March 16, 2007, succeeding Army Gen. John Abizaid, who retired. Fallon previously served as commander of U.S. Pacific Command.

Gates described as "ridiculous" any notion that Fallon's departure signals the United States is planning to go to war with Iran.

"As I say, the notion that this decision portends anything in terms of change in Iran policy is, to quote myself, 'ridiculous,' " he said.

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#1. To: aristeides, *Iranian Conflict* (#0)

Gates described as "ridiculous" any notion that Fallon's departure signals the United States is planning to go to war with Iran.

sure

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-03-11   15:47:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

The Bush administration has a way of forcing resignations of high-ranking members of the military who don't want to play along.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2008-03-11   16:59:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"As I say, the notion that this decision portends anything in terms of change in Iran policy is, to quote myself, 'ridiculous,' " he said.

Gates's actual words.

Of course, the notion might be ridiculous because policy towards Iraq is not changing: it was aggressive, and it remains aggressive.

Maybe that's what Gates meant.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2008-03-11   17:15:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

that could be it, makes a sort of sense

'He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.'
U.S. conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, imagining presidential hopeful John McCain in the White House.

robin  posted on  2008-03-11   17:18:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

One thing for sure.. Gates is a part of this lying corrupt pos administration, so his word is as good as that.

angle  posted on  2008-03-11   17:20:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

No one seems to find any good reason why oil is about to hit $110. But... maybe someone knows something.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-03-11   17:20:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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