JERRY FISHER: What would Ike say today? Oct 3, 2009
Tank units led by Gen. Tommy Franks had led American forces triumphantly into Baghdad. There was a ceremonial toppling of Saddam's statue, and the presidential "Mission Accomplished" news conference. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Book on Pat Tillman has political tones Sep 24, 2009
Lynch "a petite blond supply clerk (who) fearlessly mows down Fedayeen terrorists with her M16 until she runs out of ammo, whereupon she is shot, stabbed, captured, tortured and raped" was concocted by Jim Wilkinson, a Bush loyalist who was pulling double-duty as the director of the Office of Strategic Communications for Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in the Iraq-Afghanistan theater. Wilkinson fed the story to The Washington Post among others and, as Krakauer says, "sat... (Honolulu Advertiser)
A president prepared to risk all Jul 5, 2009
Beginning in late December 2001, US President George Bush met repeatedly with Army General Tommy Franks and his war cabinet to plan the US attack on Iraq even as he and Administration spokesmen insisted they were pursuing a diplomatic solution, according to a new book on the origins of the war ... "And get Tommy Franks looking at what it would take to protect America by removing Saddam Hussein if we have to." He also asked: Could this be done on a basis that would not be terribly noticeable. (The Age, Australia -- Features)
