Bailing Out The Miserable Failure Again

Probably in a move to create a dramatic backdrop for next week's useless bloviatings, Commander Codpiece is shuffling personnel around to make it look like he's actually doing something about his unholy nightmare in Iraq. General Casey is being sacked from his position as head of the multinational forces in Iraq. John Negroponte is being named deputy to sec. of state Kindasleazy Rice. (No doubt where he'll bring his death squad expertise to Iraq just in time for the spring offensive against the Shiites and probably Iran.) And Sockpuppet will probably install Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. forces in Asia and the Pacific, as commander of The Coalition Of The Dwindling in the middle east.

It doesn't bode well for american troops and Iraqi civilians that Sockpuppet picked Fallon. He seems to be more of a political animal and public relations flack than a general who'll look after his troops and tell it like it is. In fact this is probably another political appointment that'll work out as smashingly as Bush's other spectacular decisions. Fallon has a history of shmoozing and being called upon to smooth things over when there's bad press.

Some years ago the navy decided to use new, more powerful sonar that obviously hurt sea mammals. In March of 2000 there was a whale beaching in the Bahamas where a number died. Things came to a head and vice chief of naval operations Fallon had to appear in front of a congressional hearing the next year to admit the navy's fault.

When a sub, the U.S.S. Greeneville sank that Japanese trawler and killed some people with Codpiece's buddies at the steering wheel it was Fallon who was called on to hand deliver an apology to prime minister Yoshiro Mori.

In 2004 Sockpuppet nominated an air force general named Gregory Martin to be the next commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. But elsewhere there was a very real problem of a huge scandal coming to light where Boeing was going to rake in huge profits by leasing their 767s to the air force to be converted as aerial tankers, instead of the military buying them outright. Martin was neck deep in that scandal and Fallon was hurriedly brought in as a replacement to smooth over the mess. He was also a spokesflack for the military in that Vieques island controversy a few years back, where the people there somehow objected to their land being used for target practice and a toxic dump.

So Fallon seems to be just another one of Sockpuppet's stooges who's being called in to be a useful tool in his ongoing middle east tragedy. It may be that competent and realistic brass have all left the building and deserted Bush to his cataclysm, and all that are left are flunkies who's value is political expedience to the detriment of being a good military commander. It's a very bad omen of things to come when...

"A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned.
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The submarine encounter with the USS Kitty Hawk and its accompanying warships also is an embarrassment to the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, Adm. William J. Fallon, who is engaged in an ambitious military exchange program with China aimed at improving relations between the two nations' militaries."