{"id":662,"date":"2003-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"Who is General Tommy Franks?\r\n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Who is General Tommy Franks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

If any question why we died
\nTell them because our fathers lied.
\n– Kipling<\/i><\/div>\n

\u201cOverall command is [U.S.] General Tommy Franks, the four-star general,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cTommy Franks will work jointly with Air Marshall Brian Burridge, Britain\u2019s National Contingent Commander.\u201d <\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is a \u201cunified joint command,\u201d which has developed from the concept of the Rapid Reaction Task Force initiated by President Ronald Reagan. Central Command is under the direct command of only three men: U.S. President George W. Bush, the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks. <\/p>\n

CENTCOM has no forces of its own. Troops and assets from the various branches of the military are allocated to Franks\u2019 command in order to carry out his mandate. Franks has been mentioned as the man who will govern Iraq in the event that U.S. and British military forces occupy the Middle Eastern state of some 25 million people. <\/p>\n

Spokesmen of CENTCOM refuse to answer questions about Franks\u2019 background, which is very sketchy, and few details are found in any of the published biographical sources. Biographical entries about Franks are quite unusual in that they do not include the names of his parents or his religion. <\/p>\n

Asked about why so little information is available about the man who will lead U.S. armed forces in war, a Defense Dept. spokesman said: \u201cHe\u2019s had his bio out that he wants to put out. He has certain rights.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we are in a different age, that is force protection,\u201d Pentagon spokesman Dan Hetlage said about the secrecy behind Franks\u2019 background. \u201cThat\u2019s a personal decision [to release personal information]. It makes no difference [his religion]. He takes his orders from the President. Would it make a difference if Gen. Franks or Gen. Hetlage were in command?\u201d <\/p>\n

Franks is said to be the only child of Ray, a Wynnewood, Okla., construction worker, and Lorene, a seamstress and homemaker. Soon after his birth in 1945, his family is said to have relocated to George W. Bush’s former hometown of Midland, Texas, where Franks was a lineman on the high school football squad, who apparently made little impression. When Franks first surfaced as the commander of CENTCOM, journalists could find no one in Midland who could actually remember him having lived there. <\/p>\n

An archivist in Midland checked the town records for American Free Press and found the Franks family listed only from 1955 to 1962, during which time Ray Franks worked at a local hardware store. Oddly, from 1945 to 1955 there is no mention of the Franks family in Midland records, according to the archivist. The same year Tommy finished high school, the family apparently disappeared from Midland records. <\/p>\n

Having attended the same high school in Midland as the president\u2019s wife, Laura Bush, Franks moved to Austin where he attended University of Texas for about two years before dropping out and joining the army. After serving in Vietnam, Franks was selected to participate in the Army’s “Boot Strap Degree Completion Program,” and subsequently attended the University of Texas, Arlington, where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration in 1971. <\/p>\n

Franks collected three Purple Hearts in Vietnam although how he was injured is not a matter of public record. <\/p>\n

After a long career in the army, Franks, who is an artillery specialist, was promoted to general by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and placed in charge of Central Command, which is responsible for the entire Middle East area. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy faith in God is important,\u201d Franks said in an interview, however, it is not known which faith he belongs to. Although it has been said that Franks is of Russian Jewish extraction, the son or grandson of Khazar Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, like Gen. Wesley Kanne Clark (who was raised as a Protestant in Little Rock), the religious and ethnic background of Tommy Franks is simply not known. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat in itself says a lot,\u201d independent investigator James W. von Brunn of Easton, Maryland, told AFP. \u201cHe\u2019s hiding something,\u201d Von Brunn said. Having conducted \u201can intensive search\u201d into Frank\u2019s background von Brunn \u201cwas unable to find anything.\u201d <\/p>\n

Extracted from Rumor Mill News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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