WAKE UP AMERICA
I am sure the bamster and bite me will find a way to blame Bush/Cheney for McCrystal.
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B.S. Where was that integrity in the Pat Tillman investigation? Where is that integrity in the Afghanistan RoE?
All this boils down to is that GEN McChyrstal is very angry at DC politicians (understandable) and let it slip in some remarks to a Rolling Stone journalist. I haven't been able to read the article, but it sounds like most of the negative comments came from his staff and aides.
Contrary to popular belief, the military doesn't rob people of their personal opinions and convictions, and this attempt to practically deify GEN McChrystal b/c he doesn't like the current CinC is ridiculous.
If McChrystal is the warrior Michael Savage and others say he is , why did Obama appoint him in the first place IF Obama had no intention of winning the war ? McChrystal voted for Obama and is a Hilary fan . Why give an interview to commie dope smoking anti-America Rolling Stone ? Somethings smells here ...
Reminds me of a unit commander back in the day at Fort Sill, OK. At the time there were some very strict weather considerations that “had” to occur each spring before one was allowed to turn on the air conditioning in their quarters, even the highest officers. If it hadn’t reached a heat index of something like 95 degrees 3 out of 5 consecutive days you weren’t allowed to turn on the AC.
His wife ratted him out to other wives at a coffee, telling us that he had discovered they actually locked the controls to all the a/c units on post and could only be unlocked by the MPs. He had apparently gone out at midnight one night and tried to force the thing on, telling his wife, “what are they going to do to me, draft me into the Army and send me to Fort Sill?” Turned out he still couldn’t manage it, and he was still stuck in the Army at Fort Sill.
I think I heard Rush say something yesterday that may explain all this. If I understood correctly, MyChrystal is not stupid. (Firstly) Apparently there had been some White House planning to announce support for the timeline and closing down of the war. The general “preempted” this with this article. Now, in order to “take the moral high ground” Zero and friends have to thump their chests and get into a frenzy about how “this general has undermined their war effort”. Now Zero has to embrace the war and “own” it in order to react to this general. If this is true it is a masterstroke of strategy on the part of the general. Knowing his oponent’s weakness (his narcissim) he said things that weren’t really insubordinate and things we all know to probably be true. Zero probably was pretty nervous in a room full of generals. LOL. He let his staff say things to the reporter that allowed the “journalist” to cobble this article which probably came out just as the general figured it would (how hard was that to predict, fer cryin’ out loud? “The Rolling Stone”? C’mon!)
The general’s strategy is working, too. Gibbs, Zero, all of them have loudly proclaimed their “unending support for (the war)”. Zero up against MyChrystal reminds me of the old saying about taking a knife to a gunfight...
Yep, there are a lot of @$$ kissers that get to the top by wearing out cases of kneepads. Sad to say, but our current crop of officers knows this and they will do anything to get higher up the chain. It's not who you know, it's who you blow.
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Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of commanding forces in Afghanistan.