What I said vs What I meant VS What people believe

As the general didn't know want to deny & what to accept on last Monday, Sunday Leader reconfirmed the confusion of the general. As a country we are unfortunate to have a presidential election as such. If UNP.JVP & Mangala were successful in their effort of defeating the budget still there will be LTTE & SF is no more than a retired army commander as many if he is lucky to stay alive. This is the simple TRUTH that is forgotten. Can he be better than SB or Mangala.


According to Sunday Leader today

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2009/12/20/the-fonseka-revelations-and-presidential-palpitations/

"What needs to be said at this juncture however is that the General to his credit refused to refute the lead story in The Sunday Leader last week, despite intense pressures from his alliance partners to do so. At a hurriedly summoned meeting one hour before he was to meet the press he insisted “I cannot and will not deny the story,” he told The Sunday Leader. At this meeting were Mangala Samaraweera, Tiran Alles, Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Vijitha Herath.

However, the General’s team of alliance partners was strongly of the view that the story would entail a serious political fall-out for him when the campaign proper kicked off. After much arguing and debate, the General in consultation with his political alliance agreed that he would issue a ‘clarification’ of what exactly happened on the ground. “It will not be a denial but a clarification,” he said.

This clarification he requested we carry in our newspaper this week. Which we have done on page one as agreed."