skippy the bush kangaroo

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

coup's your daddy?

over at the agonist, numerian posits the idea that there's a quiet counter-coup against awol's gang going on in the intelligence community:

a number of political observers have taken note of a momentous event in the u.s. government – a counter-coup that overthrew the dick cheney/neocon cabal that has been running u.s. foreign policy (if not the entire u.s. government). juan cole has cited admiral william fallon, head of centcom, and admiral michael mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as two key players who stymied efforts earlier this year by dick cheney to accelerate the military build-up off the coast of iran. andrew sullivan in a blog entry called the system is working credits secretary of defense robert gates for restoring some sanity to the defense department, though he also notes that without the democratic victory in the 2006 elections bush would never have been forced to jettison rumsfeld.

in juan cole’s piece, he cites a quote from admiral fallon supposedly made to a friend at the time fallon was up for senate approval to head centcom:

'a source who met privately with fallon around the time of his confirmation hearing and who insists on anonymity quoted fallon as saying that an attack on iran "will not happen on my watch". asked how he could be sure, the source says, fallon replied, "you know what choices i have. i'm a professional." fallon said that he was not alone, according to the source, adding, "there are several of us trying to put the crazies back in the box." '
numerian goes on to muse that the recent nie revelation that iran stopped it's nuclear weapon program years ago is one step in this coup. we suggest you read the whole post.

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posted by skippy at 5:35 PM |

3 Comments:

Well then a great big thanks to the US Navy!
The professionals who really WANT to defend our nation have launched a second front against the neocons!!!!
The cracks are beginning to form in the wall the neocons have built to babloozle the American People.......
TomDem
commented by Blogger Thomas, 7:17 PM PST  
Who would have thought seven years ago that a military coup might actually sound like a good thing?
commented by Anonymous sean on li, 3:04 AM PST  
Life Well not be the Same with out them.
but waht can we do. ? to make it wright.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 12:05 AM PST  

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