Filed Under: International, National, Politics
Things that didn’t make the front pages because we were talking about the sexual habits of governors:
- William Fallon, Admiral of the US Navy and leader in charge of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars resigned on March 11th, in a controversy over differences between policy choices between himself and his subordinate, General David Petraeus. Fallon preferred a quicker US withdrawal. Fallon had a reputation of being rather outside the White House and the Department of Defense’s choices in the wars as well as their military policy in relation to Iran (reportedly, he was the sole voice against taking military action against Iran), and while Defense Secretary Robert Gates explicitly denied it, he also categorically denied any other significant reason as to why the leader should leave now.
- Iraq Veterans Against the War recount excesses and atrocities in Winter Soldier 2008 from March 13th through the 16th, inspired by the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation of the Vietnam War. Of major daily print newspapers, only the Boston Globe, Herald and the Washington Post reported on it - none on the front page. There are videos on Democracy Now.
- Dick Cheney, when asked by an ABC reporter on the Sultan of Oman’s luxury yacht on March 24th to explain how he believed the War on Iraq was a success when two thirds of Americans were against it, cut her off to reply, “So?”
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