“…Without question.
Alamo on June 4, 2008 at 11:10 AM

Gosh, I feel much better now. Earlier I felt we had taken our eye off the ball with the diversion of troops and treasure into an absolutely needless excursion in Iraq.

No. Just more serious ass-kicking that must precede the “winning of hearts & minds”.

Have we convinced the Afghanis that growing “poppy” buys them more grocery money than growing wheat or corn?

Convinvcing the Afghans has nothing to do with it. You must have infrastructure to grow food and fiber- poppies and the resultant “crop” of heroin base requires none. Again, security must precede the establishment of infrastructure. Simple minds demand simple solutions.

This is something guerilla fighters are wont to do…huh?

Particularly when subjected to aforementioned serious ASS-KICKINGS.

Are we on “on top of this shit” in Afghanistan?

Without question.

What the Admiral did was his job, nothing more and nothing less. To expect anything less or to single him out for special praise, doesn’t acknowledge the fact that the overwhelming number of American servicemen would have given a similar answer. I suspect that the good Admiral would agree

Kevin M on June 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM

Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran…?

You’re all; colectively fools..!

Sad. I do.

There seem to be plenty of Hot Air readers who are yearning for a war with Iran, however.

lexhamfox on June 3, 2008 at 2:35 PM

ahhh… they want one with us… there is a difference!

WHAT??? He put those people in power!!!! Go read your history….oh wait…it’s not in the books…. read the newspaper reports from back then…..oh wait, it’s not there either!!!! Take my word on it… uggg

ADM. FALLON: I don’t believe for a second president bush wants a war with Iran

Who is the idiot who transcribed that sentence. Looks like something a 13 year old or a college student would post.

“Fallon? Who is this Mr. Fallon you speak of?”

I guess it’s better than blue-balled though.

Admiral Fallon.

The idea that he “wants” war is silly.

EJDolbow on June 3, 2008 at 10:44 AM

Yes. It is.

It’s yet another of the funny ironies about the liberal memes: the obvious truth is that if Bush could have anything he wanted, he’d bring the troops home tomorrow, and spend the rest of his term relaxing in Crawford. He didn’t go into Iraq to help himself; he thought he had to. Whether he was right or wrong may be arguable – but he didn’t want it.

A lesser man – say, a Clinton – would have just done nothing. It would have been easy to do. And he’d have coasted to a second term and have high popularity ratings (at least until gas prices went through the roof).

Iran is the last thing he wants. Especially this late in his administration. And a lot of Presidents would avoid it – even its necessary.

The reason I’ll always admire him is that, if he thinks its necessary, he’ll do it. No matter how much he doesn’t want to.

He believes in duty. There’s no higher compliment for a President.

Adm. Fallon: But I don’t have anything.

Reporter: Well…just pretend! Tap your shoes three times and say “Bushitler is a war criminal”

Which do you think will get more attention?

Whichever makes the Bush admin look the worst.

And reiterate my disdain for Mz. PottyMouth

Note how the interviewer attempts to get him to say he’ll negotiate with Iran. Obama would be able to turn around and say, “See, even Admiral Fallon would do it”.

amerpundit on June 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM

Yup. She tries six ways to Sunday to put words in his mouth.

Typical.

“Final thoughts… I was unable to maneuver you into criticizing your commander in chief, so do you have any regrets, any kind of complaints we can use to tar the Bush administration, the military or the Iraq war effort?”

‘Cause in her twisted, leftist brain, it DID.

‘Leftist brain’ – and oxymoron.