General Stanley McChrystal Resigns

Zero Hedge ^ | 6/22/10 | Tyler Durden

[FightThePower!]

General Stanley McChrystal, who commands 142,000 troops in Afghanistan from the U.S. and 45 partner nations, has offered his resignation to Barack Obama. The reason for the departure is a profile of the general in Rolling Stone which shows the general as critical of the handling of the Afghanistan war. Bloobmerg reports: "The comments by McChrystal and aides reported in Rolling Stone magazine threaten to fracture a unified front that President Barack Obama has sought to build for the war and distract efforts to hold together an international coalition doing the fighting. Obama reacted with anger upon reading the article, his spokesman said, and officials from the White House to the Pentagon to Congress called McChrystal’s remarks a serious lapse in judgment." The problem is that no matter how the McChrystal situation is resolved, there will be a major power vacuum in Afghanistan, and the extraction of the country's $1 quadrillion (rounded up) in gold and other precious metals as per the recently disclosed "Opium Bonanza" could get slightly problematic... not to mention running the whole Taliban sideshow.

[al baby]

So you resort to name calling

[soundbits]

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[Mike Darancette]

It’s been a busy month for the Bamster. Obama let BP off the hook for the Gulf clean up and now he will be taking personal charge of the Afghan War.

I guess Obama has found his McClellan

[dixiechick2000]

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