{"id":5791,"date":"2008-03-11T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2008-03-12T06:15:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T13:15:57","slug":"centcom-commander-who-questioned-bushs-iran-war-plans-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"CENTCOM Commander Who Questioned Bush’s Iran War Plans Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

One of Bush’s top military leaders has resigned<\/a>, purportedly because of a dispute over the administration’s Iranian war policy:<\/p>\n

Admiral William “Fox” Fallon, the U.S. Centcom commander who has spoken up several times at Congressional hearings and to the press the past year to suggest a military confrontation with Iran would be ill advised, has resigned, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has just announced.<\/div>\n

Josh Marshall suggests Fallon was “too sane”<\/a> for the Bush regime:<\/p>\n

By all accounts, the points of contention between Fallon and Bush administration officials centered on three points: 1) his belief that the indefinite occupation of Iraq is a disaster for the US military, 2) that diplomacy has a central role in American foreign and national security policy, 3) that war is not a credible policy for the US to pursue in dealing with Iran. The last of these was believed to be the key issue.<\/div>\n

Democrats believe Fallon — whose conflicts with the administration were covered in an Esquire<\/a> article in this month’s issue — may have been pushed out in order to silence his criticism. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said<\/a>, “I am concerned that the resignation of Admiral William J. Fallon, commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East and a military leader with more than three decades of command experience, is yet another example that independence and the frank, open airing of experts’ views are not welcomed in this Administration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. One of Bush’s top military leaders has resigned, purportedly because of a dispute over the administration’s Iranian war policy: Admiral William “Fox” Fallon, the U.S. Centcom commander who has spoken up several times at Congressional hearings and to the press the past year to suggest a military confrontation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-iraq-war","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}