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Report: Insubordinate McChrystal Called Back to Washington for White House Meeting
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | Kristinn

Posted on 06/22/2010 4:07:18 AM PDT by kristinn

NBC News' Savannah Guthrie reports this morning that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is being called to Washington for a meeting at the White House tomorrow in the wake of a Rolling Stone article that has exposed McChrystal and his staff as mockingly disrespectful of their civilian overseers, including their commander-in-chief President Barack Obama.

Guthrie posted at Twitter:

McChrystal has been ordered to the Sit Rom tomorrow to explain his stmts criticizing admin officials to Rolling Stone to POTUS in person 15 minutes ago via UberTwitter

Guthrie added: "McChrystal has been calling around town apologizing to officials."

The Atlantic reported late last night that McChrystal had been called by numerous top officials last night:

Within hours after today's Rolling Stone story broke, McChrystal was called by the White House, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were not happy.

The Atlantic also notes that McChrystal never completely had the trust of the Obama administration:

Even though McChrystal voted for Obama and told him so during their first meeting, he sensed that a number of senior White House aides didn't really believe that the former commander of the military's special missions unit during the Bush-Cheney years was suddenly on their side. National Security Adviser James Jones, who is a bit of cipher to McChrystal's team, may or may not have been one of these aides. No one in the West Wing bought all that liberal internet chatter about JSOC's alleged crimes -- but no one really didn't buy it, either.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; mcchrystal; obama
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To: Freddd

President Commodus: “How dare you show your back to me!”


61 posted on 06/22/2010 4:41:23 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: Michigan Bowhunter
What exactly did he say?

Not sure I understand what you're asking. Do you mean, what did he say in the article?

62 posted on 06/22/2010 4:42:08 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
If Secretary Gates had an ounce of backbone,

He doesn't; he is malleable as a wet noodle statist and the reason Obama kept him as SecDef.

63 posted on 06/22/2010 4:42:54 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: GreenLanternCorps
He cannot openly mock a President while still on active duty, period.

This is a special case. What we have here is a PINO (President In Name Only).

64 posted on 06/22/2010 4:43:13 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: kristinn
Obama is hesitating to fire McChrystal

Obama hesitates on everything.

65 posted on 06/22/2010 4:44:20 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: cajungirl

Both Quantico and Centcom have been trying to hack the Post & Email news website for some time now. That’s how apolitical the military leadership is. They know who their enemy is, and it’s not necessarily Al Qaeda.

I’m really, really worried for our military if they DON’T stand up against Obama, because he may be literally making them into his banana-republic storm-troopers.


66 posted on 06/22/2010 4:44:27 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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To: Carley

Ditto. As a former military officer, we know that we must keep our opinions to ourselves and carry out the orders in a professional manner and to the best of our abilities. Otherwise be prepare to resign after making public dissenting remarks. That is the price for keeping our military out of politics, otherwise you end up with military coups and clashes that happened in Europe, Asia, Africa and South/Latin America. Obama should be voted out, and November is our chance to do it at the ballot box.


67 posted on 06/22/2010 4:45:36 AM PDT by Fee (Peace, prosperity, jobs and common sense)
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To: kristinn
NBC’s chief Pentagon reporter, Jim Mik(however you spell it) says the Pentagon is not inclined to fire McChrystal.

The Pentagon may not be the decision maker in this.

68 posted on 06/22/2010 4:46:42 AM PDT by Roccus (......and then there were none.)
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To: kristinn
From HotAir:

Update: Like I said — major fallout. Marc Ambinder relays the administration’s reaction.

What in the heck was Gen. Stanley McChrystal thinking? I mean, I know what he was thinking: he was tired of being the victim of what he believes is a concerted effort on behalf of Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and others to undermine everything he was given 18 months to do. He was tired of being perceived in the press as a neoconservative killer, Dick Cheney’s hired assassin, or disloyal to President Obama and his staff. He was angry at being blamed for leaking the draft of his report to the President to Bob Woodward. (He did NOT leak the document). He was miffed that a large number of mid-ranking soldiers and battalion commanders and enlisted guys didn’t support his strategy…

I don’t think McChrystal intended to do this. Nevertheless, he did. And as for whether there was some miscommunication about attribution, or whether McChrystal thought no one would really notice, or whether he thought a tick-tock like this would help his cause … those questions are unanswerable right now…

Within hours after today’s Rolling Stone story broke, McChrystal was called by the White House, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They were not happy.

69 posted on 06/22/2010 4:47:24 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: kristinn
Rut Roh! I expect a retirement, to spend more time with his family, coming.

LOL! He called them “The Wimps in the Whitehouse”! Boy is he in trouble with the thin skinned, man child impostor POTUS.

70 posted on 06/22/2010 4:49:08 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-3-10!)
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To: kristinn
And from Wired.com/dangerroom:

snip~

Apparently, that piece didn’t turn out how McChrystal and his guys envisioned it would. McChrystal is apologizing for the article before it’s even come out. He says in a statement: “I extend my sincerest apology for this profile. It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened. Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity. What is reflected in this article falls far short of that standard. I have enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his national security team, and for the civilian leaders and troops fighting this war and I remain committed to ensuring its successful outcome.”

(http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/mcchrystal-apologies-for-incendiary-article/#ixzz0ra7SGmUM)

71 posted on 06/22/2010 4:49:40 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: Netz
Do you remember THIS? "The excrement of propaganda" By Geoff Metcalf
72 posted on 06/22/2010 4:49:55 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: kristinn

He will resign. There may be others right behind him.


73 posted on 06/22/2010 4:51:10 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: GreenLanternCorps
If McChrystal disagrees with the President, he needs to resign his commission and then say so. He cannot openly mock a President while still on active duty, period.

That the President in question is an incompetent boob with delusions of godhood is irrelevant.

That the President in question is going to seriously compromise the war effort is irrelevant.

Criticism of the President and his policies must come from outside the military, never within.

Precisely and absolutely correct, I'm surprised to read so many here who either don't know this or don't think it matters as much as it does. One may hold whatever opinion he cares to while in the military, however, he may not express it this way -- you wanna spout off, you take your uniform off, as you say, you resign your commission first.

I don't read RS, and from the link above, I'm not getting specific quote from McChrystal, I'm not clear on exactly what he said. But from the sound of it, hearsay though it may be, it does seem to be insubordinate. I wasn't around back when, but from what my mother has told me, MacArthur may well have been correct in his military assessment but he was not correct in his public comments, Truman did what was right and proper in the circumstance, regardless how the people of the country felt.

There can be no exceptions to this rule.

74 posted on 06/22/2010 4:51:58 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: kristinn

Retirement?


75 posted on 06/22/2010 4:52:01 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: kristinn

Retirement?


76 posted on 06/22/2010 4:52:26 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

But probably not the Ambassador to Afghanistan, Eikenberry. He seems to be mucking things up big time....which is reason for promotion in this administration.


77 posted on 06/22/2010 4:52:45 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: GreenLanternCorps

This was true with all powerful and popular Gen Douglas McArthur vs pipsqueek Truman. Maybe Obama is pulling for a repeat of that, beat down a General to look tough.


78 posted on 06/22/2010 4:52:49 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
The only thing that will save the General is the political ramification if Obama fires him.

Ringy dingy. It took to post 58 for it to be mentioned of the political fallout that will hit the POS in the White House if he fires McChrystal for telling about Obama's incompetence. Does the thin skin Kenyan want to go there?

79 posted on 06/22/2010 4:54:31 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: caver

Concur with you 100%.”They” are also either a mad person or a simple wimp commie fool. Those who voted for klintoon in 92 are gulity as well.
Molon Labe,
NSNR


80 posted on 06/22/2010 4:54:39 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat
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