"Top US commander in Mideast retires early"
"by Thom Shanker and David Stout, New York Times News Service | March 12, 2008"
Ha-ha!
Think they will pick 'em up after the sale?
"WASHINGTON - Admiral William J. Fallon, the top US commander in the Middle East, whose views on Iran and other issues have seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administration, is retiring early, the Pentagon said yesterday....
Fallon had rankled senior officials of the Bush administration with outspoken comments on such issues as dealing with Iran and setting the pace of troop reductions from Iraq, even though his comments were well within the range of views expressed by Gates.
Officials said the last straw, however, came in an article in Esquire magazine by Thomas P.M. Barnett, a military analyst, that profiled Fallon under the headline "The Man Between War and Peace."
The article highlighted comments Fallon made to the Arab television station Al-Jazeera last fall, in which he said that a "constant drumbeat of conflict" from Washington that was directed at Iran and Iraq was "not helpful and not useful."
"I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for," he was quoted as saying. "We ought to try to do our utmost to create different conditions."
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, was asked at a news briefing on Monday to comment on the controversy. Morrell said that Gates and the admiral maintained a good working relationship, but that, like all military commanders, Fallon served at the pleasure of the president....
And the "PRESIDENT" was NO LONGER PLEASED, was he?!
Although known for being tough on his subordinates, Fallon also developed a reputation for nuanced diplomatic negotiations with friendly nations and with some with whom the United States has more prickly ties.
Earlier in his career, when he was the US military commander in the Pacific, he annoyed conservatives by taking what they considered an overly conciliatory stance toward China."
Oooooooooh, NOW I GET IT!!!!
Fallon OBJECTED to the WHOLE WWIII, PNAC shit!!!!!!!
That's why HE IS OUT, and the Zionist-controlled, PNAC-promoting MSM has been focusing on China so much recently!!
Like today:
"Chinese officials announce broad reorganization"
"Tibetan protesters vow to march to homeland" by Heather Timmons, New York Times News Service
"US tags Beijing as rights abuser"
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Ummm, POT... KETTLE... BLACK!!
Wees the U.S. and WEES TORTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!
And WHY are we even WAR-BAITING China, anyhow?
"China's economy, like any emerging market, inexorably tied to US"
There can only be ONE, Zionist-inspired, PNAC reason why, folks!!!!
