Fallon Resigns As Mideast Military Chief
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Pentagon news conference that he accepted the request ofAdm. William Fallon, commander of the U. S. Central Command, to resign and retire from the Navy, agreeing that the Iran issue had become a distraction. But Gates said repeatedly that he believed talk of Fallon opposing Bush on Iran was mistaken.It has been rumored for some time that once Fallon was out of the way, President Bush could widen the war to Iran. By my count, we have ten months or until January 20th, 2009 for the rumors to be wrong.[...]
Fallon was the subject of an article published last week in Esquire magazine that portrayed him as at odds with a president eager to go to war with Iran. Titled "The Man Between War and Peace," it described Fallon as a lone voice against taking military action to stop the Iranian nuclear program.
Posted by movermike on
Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 10:24pm
Fallon is described as "the one person in the military or Pentagon standing between the White House and war with Iran."