Sunday, September 16, 2007

Adm. Fallon - Gen. Petraeus Discord?

Did Adm. Fallon actually call Gen. Petraeus as "ass kissing little chickenshit"? The Washington Post reported the following a week ago:
The profoundly different views of the U.S. role in Iraq only exacerbated the schism between the two men.

"Bad relations?" said a senior civilian official with a laugh. "That's the understatement of the century. . . . If you think Armageddon was a riot, that's one way of looking at it."
Armageddon, that sounds like maybe some pretty tough words were thrown around. Since Adm. Fallon is Gen. Petraeus's boss, I'm assuming most of the word throwing around was done by Adm. Fallon.

On the other hand the "ass kissing little chickenshit" was reported by Gareth Porter in the Inter Press Service News Agency. This is not considered to be the mainstream news media. Although it confuses me that conservatives want to hear this from the MSM considering how much they distrust the MSM.

In any case it was reported by IPS a week ago and has now been repeated across the internets to the tune of about 87,300 google hits. Will we hear a denial from Adm. Fallon that the incident never happened? Are Adm. Fallon and Gen. Petraeus actually best buds?

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