Fallon Senate Confirmation Hearing
This entry was posted on 1/31/2007 11:27 PM and is filed under Code Pink,Iraq.
1/30/07 -- Today the Senate held a hearing to question Admiral William Fallon, who has been nominated to replace Army Gen. John Abizaid
as head of Central Command, which includes all military operations in Iraq and Afganistan. The Pentagon has divided up the entire world into commands and Central Command includes the Middle East, East Africa and Central Asia. Admiral Fallon is President Bush's choice for the command.
When Senator Lieberman (Independent, CT) began asking questions, a half dozen people affiliated with Code Pink, Women for Peace, rose in silence, some with their hands raised in peace signs while others held shoes representing Iraqi victims of the Iraq war. They remained standing throughoutt Sen. Lieberman's questioning, did not speak, and the police, who quickly gathered in the back of the room, did not ask them to leave.
After the hearing, the women (and men) asked Fallon to think more than his predecessor about the lives that are being destroyed in the war.
For his part, during the questioning by the senators, Fallon echoed what peace activists have been saying (and vilified for saying) for years: "What we have been doing has not been working," he said. "We have got to be doing, it seems to me, something different." Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, Adm. Fallon did not say what the something different would be.
Activists rose as Sen. Lieberman began speaking
Shoes represnting a five year old Iraqi girl killed in the war on Iraq
