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4uk4ata said, almost 3 years ago
What was he thinking, anyway?
motivemagus said, almost 3 years ago
HOWGOZIT, if a general had said the same about Bush, you’d be all over his @ss. Get consistent here. Whether he likes it or not, McChrystal reports to the Commander-in-Chief, and fighting it out in the media is not only stupid – and it IS stupid – it is also a violation of his oath and the Military Code of Conduct. He was drunk and stupid, and he should be disciplined for it. Chances are he’ll fall on his sword.
Norman L Jones Sr
said, almost 3 years ago
He may have been wrong to say it, but he DA-N sure is RIGHT about the jacka–es running the country!
Corosive Frog
said, almost 3 years ago
Sooky Rottweiler says; Advice to anyone who might be tempted to say “Bite me” to a rottweiler; DON’T DO IT! We love to take it literally.
Watch out what you wish for!
dtroutma
said, almost 3 years ago
It is also interesting to note that the UCMJ only spoke to the Commander in Chief ,and Vice President- before Rumsfeld and Cheney changed it to include disrespecting the Defense Secretary, Governors, and others. At a change of command ceremony, a Navy admiral noted that, and spoke out “vigorously” against Rumsfeld, so they changed the UCMJ.
Gypsy8 said, almost 3 years ago
Agree with Motive he was either drunk or stupid. He has been known to be a loose canon. Could it be he has a drinking problem? Probably a sign the war is not going so good and Esprite de Corps is suffering.
churchillwasright said, almost 3 years ago
Blame it on the volcano.
“If you read the Rolling Stone article carefully, you can see that the reporter, Michael Hastings, has woven three stories together. One story is the story of General McChrystal trying to keep up morale in a tough war with his troops thinking he is too worried about civilian casualties and he is forcing them to accept too many risks as consequence. This is also the story of McChrystal feeling under time pressure from Washington. I bet this is the story Hastings pitched to McChrystal’s staff and the story McChrystal thought was being reported.
“The other two stories are the ones that caused the problem, he says: the one the reporter really wanted to write (about how the COIN strategy was doomed), and the one he got to write by fortune – based on comments in a bar in Paris.
The clear context of those Paris-bar remarks is the ‘shore-leave’ atmosphere that comes when you take people who have been under the pressures of war and command, and put them in a bar with beer for the first time in Lord-knows-how-many months. I think the decision to let him tag along to the bar, coupled with this is the key fact about how the article got written:
“Q: How much time did you spend with McChrystal over the month? “A: Another strange journalistic twist. The Icelandic volcano happens, and so my two-day trip turned into this month-long journey following General McChrystal and his staff around from Paris to Berlin to Kabul to Kandahar and then back to Washington, D.C.
“So, he was introduced in an unguarded moment when “Team America” was blowing off stress; and then he got to tag along with them because of the volcano. That explains how he got inside the ‘circle of trust’ so easily and completely.”
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/06/secondday-information-on-the-rolling-stone-article.html
Funny how Fate can conspire to change history.
motivemagus said, almost 3 years ago
HOWGOZIT - wrong. Bush and Rumsfield refused the proper number of troops, remember? And armor?
lonecat said, almost 3 years ago
^ That’s clear. Or modern history, either.