ViceZilla’s Views

Will President bush spend his last ten months in office quietly flying under the radar with his war drum tucked away in his closet? Surely the least popular President in history will be happy to spend his remaining days in office doing anything other than getting involved in making his already failed foreign policies worse, right? Think again.

All one has to do is do a simple search on Goggle to realize that Bush and Cheney have been rattling their sabers about war with Iran for a long time. The reason it probably hasn’t happened yet is due to one man. He is Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command. Fallon has privately stated that an attack on Iran “will not happen on my watch.”

Well it seems his ‘watch’ might be ending sooner than Bush’s. According to an article in Esquire Magazine due out next month, Thomas P.M. Barnett writes:

…well-placed observers now say that it will come as no surprise if Fallon is relieved of his command before his time is up next spring, maybe as early as this summer, in favor of a commander the White House considers to be more pliable. If that were to happen, it may well mean that the president and vice-president intend to take military action against Iran before the end of this year and don’t want a commander standing in their way.

The war sabers have been rattling with the beat of the war drums in the background for some time against Iran. If Adm. Fallon is replaced as commander of Central Command before Bush leaves office, it could mean that President Bush doesn’t intend to leave office quietly.

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