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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.

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Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge

Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service: "Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant...Fallon was strongly opposed to Petraeus's role as pitch man for the surge policy in Iraq adopted by Bush in December as putting his own interests ahead of a sound military posture in the Middle East and Southwest Asia...The CENTCOM commander believed the United States should be withdrawing troops from Iraq urgently."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307L.shtml



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