Adm Fallon doesn't know the 'details' of the surge plan

[salin]

says something to the effect of once they get the troops in place the plans would be more clear (probably didn't sound quite as bad as my words - but still bad).

So war critics are supposed to give Jrs plan a chance. Are demonized for not supporting the "last best chance". But the man charged with leading the charge (so to speak) doesn't yet know details?

Doesn't bode well.

[MADem]

1. I have a sneaky feeling that the details will go something like this

"Fallon, sit yer ass down and write up a surge plan...I wanna put 21.5 thousand troops in Baghdad and Anbar, git it? Make it happen, chop, chop, boy...ah need it tomorrow..."

[salin]

2. Could be why he gave the impression before congress

that he wouldn't directly 'endorse' the surge/plan.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_070131.htm
Bush CentCom Nominee Pleads Ignorance
Admiral William Fallon, selected by President Bush to lead the US Central Command, which has responsibility for the war in the Iraq, yesterday testified before a Senate committee considering his nomination. NBC Nightly News reported Fallon "declined to take a position on the President's plan for a troop increase." Under the headline "I Don't Know The Details," the Washington Times says Fallon, "picked by President Bush to oversee his new strategy for Iraq testified yesterday that he does not know much about the plan that the administration says will determine whether the US wins the war." The Times also notes the nominee "specifically declined to endorse Mr. Bush's plan." USA Today, AP, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times also report the story.

[izzie]

3. I am not shocked.

E-mail Black water and see what they plan. One wonders how we ever made it through WW2 with govt. doing that little war. I think we had a plan and people were fired, who wore uniforms, if things did not work they would do something else. We once landed in No. Africa and hardly a thing worked right so we learned. Bush seem to learn nothing. I guess it is how it works when you have people who are sure they are right. I can think of others in history that took their own countries down by being sure they were right.

[salin]

4. What is shocking - is that he indicated this

AND that the media picked it up. The widespread participation in covering bushco's spin isn't so universal anymore.

The story itself SHOULD be shocking, just not shocking from bushco.