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Adm. Fallon Speaks

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Posted on Jun 9, 2008

The former head of U.S. Central Command who retired after an Esquire magazine article alleged he was the man standing between President Bush and war with Iran speaks to PBS’ “Now.” Fallon, who acknowledges “I’m not a very shy guy,” all but admits that he did indeed disagree with the administration.

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By Alejandro, June 12, 2008 at 5:21 am Link to this comment
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Purple Girl; you are spot on about the Media talking heads. One thing that isn’t mentioned much is the fact that most if not all of the TV as well as print, media wonks are paid well in to six figures. That means that they are among the winners of the Bush tax breaks, and by not forcefully exposeing the criminality of this Administration are complicit in this illegal war in Iraq and the economic rape of the middle class of our country. I really don’t think they are apt to bite the hand that feeds them. Is there a Hero amongst them? I doubt it. Perhaps (MSNBC’S) Keith Olbermann comes closest.

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By omop, June 11, 2008 at 7:35 am Link to this comment

Admiral Fallon victim of the neocon/likudniks affiliated with the Podhoretz clan promoting the nuking of Iran.

Hopefully the Admiral might be offered an advisory role by the incoming Obama administration. The Strategy for Securing a New Realm by Nethanyahu, Perle, Feith, Wurmser, Ledeen et al[ redesigning borders of Middle Eastern states to protect Israel] still has a few adherents in the Bush administration.

One has to wonder whether there is anyone in Bush’s ensemble that has a modicum of intelligence in the area of foreign policy, given the 4 trillion dollar cost of Wolfowitz’s cakewalk into iraq.

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By PatrickHenry, June 10, 2008 at 3:14 pm Link to this comment

We need a chairman at the JCS like Fallon, perhaps SecDef.

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By Purple Girl, June 10, 2008 at 4:49 am Link to this comment

This is exactly the indictment agaisnt the Media and the So called ‘Liberal’ Sector.
How much air time will Fallon Get even on MSNBC? None it’s far too much proof of the Criminal Minset of this Admin and it’s enablers.
media is Drooling all over itself to Cover mcClellan’s ‘Cover W’s Ass’ deversion.
Gregory can Kiss My Ass.
it ahs become SOOO apparent that even those who claim to be ‘on our side’ are nothing more than Covert operatives- the real Smoke a mirrors to the National conspiracy to Usurp our Democracy.Ther eis no Free pass for Dereliction of Duty. The Free Press is RIGHT and MANDATE- it is Not a suggestion! Intentional Omisssions of the Truth Are still LIES and Thus Criminal Acts against US-Propaganda, directly or indirectly, is Still TREASON!
The media has accumulated enought Well Documented Evidence to Prosecute this Admin and It’s enablers- but are refusing to Put the Case together. If they really wanted to do their JOBS we would have had this Admin et al in Prison years ago.Thye are no tonly complicte in the Crimes agaisnt the citizens of this Democracy, but guilty of perpetuating War Crimes and Crimes agaisnt Humanity by Protecting and concealing these Crimes. blood is on the ahnds of every Media Top Dog an devery minion who failed to expose the crimes of the Admin,Congress,SCOTUS, The Corps and Most assuredly Their Bosses!

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By Marc Schlee, June 9, 2008 at 7:48 pm Link to this comment
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No amnesty.

Pursue the Bush administration beyond January 20 until they are brought to justice.

Direct Democracy

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By cyrena, June 9, 2008 at 5:20 pm Link to this comment

Well thanks..TD, for hooking us up to that. I watched the whole thing, and really appreciated all of the interviews, especially the one with David Sirota.

Interesting about Adm Fallon as well. He’s always been really impressive, and I think we knew all along that he wasn’t willing to follow the long ago plan to whack Iran, without checking things out. Needless-to-say, anybody should have been even MORE cautious about it, considering the lies about Iraq.

So, while he might diplomatically say that it was a ‘chain-of-command’ issue, (so typical with authoritarian regimes) the bottom line is more like…we (Dick Bush) want you to whack Iran. If you won’t do it…out goes your ass.

After all, diplomacy has no place in a Dick Bush neo-con regime.

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