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Ass-Kissing Little Chickenshit Promoted to Head U.S. Central Command

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Ass-Kissing Little Chickenshit Promoted to Head U.S. Central Command

Jim Freeman
Apr 24, 2008
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Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2008

What the Petraeus Promotion Means

TIME MAGAZINE By Mark Thompson/Washington

Defense Secretary Robert Gates's announcement Wednesday promoting General David Petraeus from his current post running the war in Iraq to head up U.S. Central Command triggered both political and military unease. That response may be inevitable, coming on the downside of an unpopular war and in the waning months of the tenure of the unpopular President who launched it.

While Republicans hailed the news that Petraeus — who implemented the "surge" of 30,000 additional U.S. troops into Iraq, which is seen has having tamped down violence — was moving up the chain of command, Democrats were cooler. Opponents of the war fear that if the Democrat-led Senate approves Petraeus's promotion, it could be taken as a signal to "stay the course" in a war that has dragged on for more than five years and has killed more than 4,000 U.S. troops. . . . John McCain hailed Petraeus' nomination, calling him "…

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