Listening

Adm. Fallon was forced to resign/retire yesterday.  Adm. Fallon was the head of Central Command, and in charge of running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was forced out for statements he made in an Esquire article where he made a vigorous argument against making war against Iran.  This attitude, and his comments, undercut the Bush Administration and their case for war.

Bush has repeatedly said he will make military decisions based on advice he gets from listening to his generals.  But his actions have shown that is only so long as the generals are saying things President Bush wants to hear.

Or maybe it was because Bush discovered Fallon is actually an admiral and not a general, and therefore Bush wasn’t bound by his previous promises.

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