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Gates says Fallon, Petraeus, and Odierno are in total agreement on the role of Iran in Iraq. What a surprise.
chrish | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 11:22 am | #

Petraeus get's to relace the guy that said this about him.

"Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior."

No suprise here after kissing Bush's arse for as long as he has. :)
Oklad B.C. | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 12:26 pm | #

I watched this breaking news and all I could think was I wonder when they (MSM) are going to address the New York Times article on corrupt military analysts? I'm not holding my breath and don't believe a word that comes out of any of their mouths.
Laura | 04.23.08 - 12:45 pm | #

Be prepared for some kind of attack on Iran before Bush leaves office. We are not finished with these nut case war mongers yet.
s.blackwelder | 04.23.08 - 12:46 pm | #

Be prepared for some kind of attack on Iran before Bush leaves office. We are not finished with these nut case war mongers yet.
s.blackwelder | 04.23.08 - 12:46 pm | #
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Yeppers all they have to do is start it!! Then they can say.....well we ARE there now...who cares if we lied to get there. We HAVE to win it now or we will look weak to the world. These guys have their propaganda tactics down well
hoode | 04.23.08 - 1:07 pm | #

Gosh, hope Iran doesn't have a pre-emtive strike policy.
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Patriot Actor | 04.23.08 - 1:15 pm | #

The Dems. have become just as responsible for the Iraq disaster because they didn't do their job and impeach Bush and Cheney. I guarantee if Hillary or Obama get in the W.H.they will not end the war and our troops will not come home. Oil baby oil that is our life blood and status quo maker.
s.blackwelder | 04.23.08 - 1:25 pm | #

Patriot Actor | 04.23.08 - 1:15 pm

As a matter of fact awhile back they said they did. That if attacked they had missiles aimed at targets over the ME that could be launched within 10 seconds.
john t | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 1:32 pm | #

More rearranging of the deck chairs
shell | 04.23.08 - 1:53 pm | #

john t | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 1:32 pm | #

Making Beach boy McCains singing all the more serious...and dangerous.
Patriot Actor | 04.23.08 - 1:54 pm | #

War with Iran should precipitate a peoples' impeachment -- a la Louis XVI.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. "
-- Thomas Jefferson
1-20-2009 | 04.23.08 - 1:54 pm | #

You know the old saying, "only cream and bastards rise to the top"?

Well, in BushCo, we KNOW there's no cream . . .

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mj | 04.23.08 - 2:07 pm | #

Betray Us= Bush's butler
jr | 04.23.08 - 2:16 pm | #

This is like changing the deck chairs on the Titanic.

With all my love,
Aunty Em
Aunty Em Ericann | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:20 pm | #

This was written by a big-time CONSERVATIVE about Iraq, but would hold true for Iran as well.

"Prior to his resignation last month, U.S. Comptroller General David Walker reported that the accumulated unfunded liabilities of the U.S. government total $53 trillion. The U.S. government cannot cover these liabilities. The Bush regime even has to borrow the money from foreigners to pay for its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The moral costs are perhaps the highest. All of the deaths, injuries, and economic costs to the U.S. and its victims are due entirely to lies told by the president and vice president of the U.S., by the secretary of defense, the national security adviser, the secretary of state, and, of course, by the media, including the "liberal" New York Times . All of these lies were uttered in behalf of an undeclared agenda. "Our" government has still not told "we the people" the real reasons "our" government invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
Instead, the American sheeple have accepted a succession of transparent lies: weapons of mass destruction, al-Qaeda connections and complicity in the 9/11 attack, overthrowing a dictator and "bringing democracy" to Iraqis."
The great, moral American people would rather believe government lies than to acknowledge the government's crimes and to hold the government accountable."

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/? ...articleid=12730
1-20-2009 | 04.23.08 - 2:23 pm | #

All I had to do was watch Petraeus in front of Congress to figure out he was "an ass-kissing little chickenshit"..

Feel better now?
Oklad B.C. | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:25 pm | #

More rearranging of the deck chairs
shell | 04.23.08 - 1:53 pm | #
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I didn't see your comment, shell, and repeated much the same thing about 30 minutes later.

With all my love,
Aunty Em
Aunty Em Ericann | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:26 pm | #

Guess what moron, you are wrong that urban legend has long been debunked.

I was waiting to see how long it would take for one of you muts to bring it up.
Anonymous | 04.23.08 - 1:58 pm | #
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Could you show where this has been debunked?

While I have read the original comments many times, I have yet to see anyone say they were false.

With all my love,
Aunty Em
Aunty Em Ericann | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:29 pm | #

Would you say this to his face?
kre500m | 04.23.08 - 2:38 pm

I would. Betrayus the chicken shit ass kisser.

Did you know real Generals turned down the job because they want to go to their graves with a clean conscience.
info | 04.23.08 - 2:45 pm | #

If Betryaus had any integrity he would have told Congress the bribe money to the insurgents is working.
info | 04.23.08 - 2:47 pm | #

Well, time to seek out the Pentagon's second-most-practiced presidential a$$ kisser to replace him.
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ProfessorDuh | 04.23.08 - 2:50 pm | #

Could you show where this has been debunked?

While I have read the original comments many times, I have yet to see anyone say they were false.

With all my love,
Aunty Em
Aunty Em Ericann | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:29 pm | #

Here you go.

Although Fallon denies calling the General “an ass-kissing little chickenshit,” it’s generally thought that there’s animosity between the two.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/arc...8/03/ 020024.php
The Real Hound Watcher | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:55 pm | #

The Real Hound Watcher | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 2:55 pm | #
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How a bout a non-partisan source, you know, like the AP or Reuters? Your source has written for The National Review and other neocon rags.

This guy's opinions do not make fact. Hence the term OPINION.
stav506 | 04.23.08 - 3:10 pm | #

An article written by Garth Porter in the "Asia Times" and you want a "non-partisan" source?
Anonymous | 04.23.08 - 3:14 pm | #

Where in that article does it say it was printed in the Asia Times? Click the link supplied by Hound watcher and tell me exactly where it's at.
stav506 | 04.23.08 - 3:17 pm | #

Thought so.

Oh, and I hope Petreus likes the job until 1/20/09, the day a democrat kicks his ass out of there.
stav506 | 04.23.08 - 3:31 pm | #

Would you say this to his face?
kre500m | 04.23.08 - 2:38 pm | #
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Yes I would. Yer point???
hoode | 04.23.08 - 3:46 pm | #

Still waiting for your reply Anonymous. Show me where that powerline blog states the post was actually an article in the Asia Times.

I see you're still around so what's taking so long. It only took me 2 minutes to read the article. Why's it taking you soooooo long to answer?

BTW: The article is written by Max Boot (Max Boot, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. - direct from the link - click Max Boot in blue type and it's the same article he wrote for the opinion seciotn of the LA Times.)

Hence, my reference to the term OPINION in my original post.

Man, I like making you look foolish.
stav506 | 04.23.08 - 3:49 pm | #

I see the blackfive folks have cleansed their site. Shortly after the moveon.org betrayus flap broke there was a comments section showing that the "betrayus" monicker actually originated with the asskissers own troops when he was a bird in command of the pukin buzzards, but blackfive took the whole site down for a while and I see that the reincarnation has been subjected to a serious white-washing.And Kremey, yes, I'd quite likely tell him to his face just what I thought of him- I suppose you can arrange that eh? what with your extensive influence and all- from what I've read the asskisser tag fits pretty well and there'd be no danger of his being a physical brute.After the busheviks had finished their winnowing you just had to know this turd was going to float, and fux being the propaganda organ of record for the whole crop of criminals has to portray the guy as the greatest military mind since Hannibal.
donquijotesrocket | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 4:00 pm | #

WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS) - In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.

Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235
1-20-2009 | 04.23.08 - 4:14 pm | #

HMMM, my post was in response to the powerline article. Somehow you reference an article in the Asia Times, yet do not provide a link. Instead you say I am an ignorant fool.

Supply the link and this all goes away. I will stop making you look like an ignorant fool for talking about something yet not providing a source or proof. Did you fail high school English? Providing a source was one if the 1st things they teach.
stav506 | 04.23.08 - 4:18 pm | #

David Petraeus in my opinion is the Benedict Arnold of the 21st Century.

He knowingly has caused thousands of Americans to die, has knowingly lied to Congress about salient points, all to advance his career.

That to me is a traitor. Shame on him.
davefromqueens | 04.23.08 - 5:07 pm | #

davefromqueens | 04.23.08 - 5:07 pm | #

With luck that career will soon stall with a change in admministrations.
FinalFurlong | 04.23.08 - 5:15 pm | #

You can shuffle cooks all around and around. But let's face it, a recipe for crap is a recipe for crap and you can't turn it into apple pie no matter how many cooks try.
ufoshadow | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 5:53 pm | #

An honorable man would find a more honorable line of work than working for Bush. Even if it's bagging groceries.
Alex Thorpe | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 6:11 pm | #

BTW Houndy, you should just stop giving links. Everyone you give shows your ignorance.
john t | Homepage | 04.23.08 - 6:13 pm | #

edited
personal attack
moderator divan
Anonymous | 04.23.08 - 7:11 pm | #

Mark,
Please don't respond to trollish statements.
Or, if you must, just leave the the time and sig. Don't leave the quote.
Thanks.
moderator divan

Why is it ignorant, wingnut moron?

And how about giving us your name--just what are you trying to hide?
Mark Jeffries | 04.23.08 - 7:25 pm | #

Curly replaced Shemp, who returned to replace Curly. Joe Besser replaced Shemp, and was in turn replaced by Curly Joe De Rita ....
bugler | 04.23.08 - 7:32 pm | #

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