ADMIRAL FALLON GETS IT

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Federal News Service
January 30, 2007 Tuesday
SECTION: CAPITOL HILL HEARING
LENGTH: 26284 words
EADLINE: HEARING OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE; SUBJECT: THE NOMINATION OF ADMIRAL WILLIAM FALLON FOR APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE OF ADMIRAL AND TO BE COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND; CHAIRED BY: SENATOR CARL LEVIN (D-MI); WITNESS: ADMIRAL WILLIAM FALLON, U.S. NAVY; LOCATION: 106 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C.

ADM. FALLON:The situation in Iraq is serious and clearly in need of new and different actions.

ADM. FALLON:But it seems pretty obvious to me that what we have been doing has not been working. We have not been getting the results that we desire, and we clearly have to do something different.

ADM. FALLON: What we've been doing is not working and we have got to be doing, it seems to me, something different.

SEN. GRAHAM: Is Iraq winnable militarily?
ADM. FALLON: Not militarily. But could the situation in Iraq be turned around? I firmly believe it can, if we have the engagement of the capabilities that are necessary to help --