Ah. Here’s where it came from: Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - May 15, 2007. Italy recently became Iran’s main trading partner.
POLITICS-US: Commander’s Veto Sank Threatening Gulf Buildup
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37738
Adm Fallon was PACOM (Pacific Command) before he was CENTCOM, and I know some folks who worked for him and told me what he was like. He would never, ever refer to his superiors as "crazies."
It is easy to plant stories about Generals and Admirals.
You can put any words in their mouth you want, and reporters are pretty sure they won't even respond. IF they respond and deny this garbage, reporters will whisper "They are just trying to protect their bosses" meaning the SECDEF and the President.
What bullshit! A serving flag officer allegedly saying he will not follow orders he doesn’t like.
Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz could have learned much from Fox.
This so called writer has a long history of pushing the Gay agenda and lying in his opeds to push the gay agenda and trash Republicans, our military and President Bush.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=Gareth%20Porter%20+%20gay
Whenever an attack oped like this pos appears. Go a search in Yahoo with the writers + gay. Most of time, the writer has decades of writing for Gay sites and attacking the conservative position.
Gareth Porter has a well-documented history of embellishment, half-truths, and blame-America-first-ism.
That being said, Fallon is a professional soldier... and as such probably has little use for taking assets away from where they are needed and putting men into harm’s way simply to send a political message.
Political considerations are one of the reasons we have not taken a flamethrower to Iraq while carpet-bombing the Iranian border.