Admiral Fallon Said What?

Published September 13, 2007 3:55pm ET



As far as calling General Petraeus a traitor, despite some of the left’s more absurd attempts to parse the language, MoveOn isn’t shying away from the charge. The Politico reports that MoveOn’s executive director had this to say about ‘General Betray Us’:

“Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade, even if it’s a respected general.”

But according to the Inter Press News Service Agency (IPS), that’s hardly the worst thing that Petraeus has been called since assuming command of U.S. forces in Iraq. IPS reported yesterday that Admiral Fallon had, earlier this year, called Petraeus “an ass-kissing little chicken-shit”–to his face. Dean Barnett digs into this one:

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