Gen. Stanley McChrystal retirement

Big Bureaucracy ^ | July 24th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

[JohnBrowdie]

Let's hope the new media engagement rules will prevent Rolling Stone from defeating our top command in the future.

the malignant little crap weasel that wrote that hit piece should be fragged. but mchrystal defeated himself.

[Venturer]

I would have left without the party.

[Frantzie]

McChrystal supposedly voted for the muslim saudi agent.

[Big Bureaucracy]

True - nobody can do to us as much harm as we can do to ourselves.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Your Question: "I wonder what will come up when McChystal and his wife open their mouth and are free to talk."

Response: If he or his wife talks his pension will be reduced to that level payable to his former permanent rank. Further, not being familiar with the arcana of military law there may be some sort of legal penalty that would attach.

[Big Bureaucracy]

Who lives by the liberal - gets fired by the liberal... or something like that?

[Big Bureaucracy]

Bummer! So they will stay quiet?

[RWB Patriot]

A co-worker of mine who served in the military says there is actually a rule forbidding the military from publically speaking out against the CIC. Whether this applies to retired military, I don’t know.

In any case, keep in mind who will be paying his pension and controlling his benefits.

[Non-Sequitur]

Let's hope the new media engagement rules will prevent Rolling Stone from defeating our top command in the future.

If nothing else, hopefully they will know better than to talk to "Rolling Stone" to begin with.

[Outlaw Woman]

"sadness that our comrade and his prestigious talents are leaving us."

I just want to vomit when I see that term...especially applied to the military. Does anyone doubt that this is fascism laying in wait???

[BARLF]

McChrystal supposedly voted for the muslim saudi agent.

Yes, that came from that creep at Politico, Michael Calderone

So why do you repeat it here?

Rumors become facts now.

[Big Bureaucracy]

May be book in the future? Running for office?

[ArmyTeach]

Looks like Gen. McChrystal and his wife are really trying hard to hold the emotions inside. Awkward moment. Yes, they are and yes, it is. Been there, done that. After a long career, it can feel as if your whole life is being pulled out from under you, every thing you worked for and lived for. With additional emotional turmoil for the McChrystals, wish them all the very best.

[Big Bureaucracy]

Gates has a degree in Soviet history. ‘Comrade’ was a bit awkward.

[BARLF]

May be book in the future? Running for office?

President of The United States of America, I hope.

[Big Bureaucracy]

I thought this photo sums the moment perfectly - picture worth many words.

[ArmyTeach]

Yes ...

[hinckley buzzard]

Really. When Norman Schwartzkopf wrote his autobiography did he get his pension gigged? How about when William Westmoreland wrote his?

[Big Bureaucracy]

Where is he going to work now? Did he say yet?