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Gen. Franks to speak at Fort Sill

Ret. Gen. Tommy Franks speaks to the press at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in 2004. Franks will speak this week at an Armed Forces Day luncheon in Lawton, officials have announced. ROBERT S. CROSS/Tulsa World file

By Associated Press
Published: 5/10/2009 3:30 PM
Last Modified: 5/10/2009 3:36 PM

LAWTON — The commander of U.S. forces at the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will speak at an Armed Forces Day luncheon at Fort Sill this week.

The speech by retired Army Gen. Tommy Franks is part of a two-day celebration planned in Lawton. A parade Saturday will feature 2,500 soldiers and Marines.

Franks developed the initial "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq in March 2003 before retiring four months later.

The Wynnewood native was inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame in November. He has a home in the southwestern Oklahoma town of Roosevelt, and a leadership institute and museum bearing his name is being built in downtown Hobart.

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	Report Comment rogerq, Pyeongtaek, South Korea (5/10/2009 6:39:42 PM) I hope so Jim, I certainly hope so.
	Report Comment rogerq, Pyeongtaek, South Korea (5/10/2009 10:18:54 PM) Generals don't make policy, generals follow orders and make plans that are adapted to cover all scenarios. General Franks didn't give anyone the intelligence reports claiming WMD, that was done by the intel community, and that's a whole different animal from the military.
	Report Comment Dr. Strangelove, Tulsa (5/10/2009 10:56:46 PM) Franks spoke in Tulsa a few years ago, he was excellent.
	Report Comment Isaac Parker, Tulsa (5/11/2009 6:07:36 AM) Polar Bear, you need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and get some facts straight. Here's what happened to Sadam's weapons of mass destruction (not counting the gassing of thousands of his own Iraqis by chemical weapons)... In the early 1980's Iraq, under Saddam Hussein began building the Osiraq nuclear reactor. Israel feared that Iraq would use the reactor to build nuclear weapons and bomb Israel. When negotiations didn't work, Israel, under Prime Minister Menachem Begin decided to bomb the reactor. In June of 1981, a squadron of fighter jets flew into Iraq, bombed the reactor and returned safely home. The successful mission was met with praise in Israel but condemnation from other countries. These same countries later thanked Israel during the 1991 Persian Gulf War when Iraq's further plans for war were revealed.

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