Where the hell is the media. They were so willing to announce every death under Bush. Now they are silent. How do they sleep at night. Obama, this is your war. Act like a Commander in Chief not like you are campaigning still.
His Giant Ego is too busy trying to be king of the World. He has no time to be bothered with what could be avoidable deaths of American servicemen.
Besides, he's proving his qualifications to head up the “Security Council” (excuse my utter hysterical laughter!) to the America hating dweebs at the U.N..:
“Obama to seal US-UN relationship”
“Where the hell is the media.”
The hell with the media. Where is the PENTAGON??? We just had Troops killed rescuing a New York Times reporter. Do you think the NYT is going to thank them or support them?
The ONLY thing of value in Afghanistan is the drugs. The ONLY thing. I have been saying it over and over and over, but the “search” for a freaking DEAD Bin Laden has been the excuse used by the powers that be to keep our Troops there, now under almost impossible condititons.
McChrystal is a politician. He sold his bowl of venison to the Senate in order to be promoted to general. There had to be reasons why he was not promoted before that, Pat Tillman not withstanding. I would like to know what Petraeus thinks of his performance in Afghanistan. And I wonder where the Pentagon is when there appears to be outright anger from the troops serving under his command and they are not being quiet about it.
I have been hearing it under the radar for weeks, but it has become much more public now.
He is clearly putting our Troops in danger. This is NO WAY TO RUN A WAR.
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“from November 1994 to June 1996. After a year as a senior service college fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, he moved up to command the entire 75th Ranger Regiment from June 1997 to August 1999, then spent another year as a military fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.”
“At the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003, he was serving in the Pentagon as a member of the Joint Staff, where he had been vice director of operations, J-3, since July 2002. McChrystal was selected to deliver nationally televised Pentagon briefings on U.S. military operations in Iraq, including one in April 2003 shortly after the fall of Baghdad in which he announced, ‘I would anticipate that the major combat engagements are over.’”
“McChrystal was considered a candidate to succeed General Bryan D. Brown as commander of U.S. Special Operations Command in 2007,[12] and to succeed General David H. Petraeus as commanding general of Multi-National Force - Iraq or Admiral William J. Fallon as commander of U.S. Central Command in 2008, all four-star positions. ***Instead, McChrystal was nominated to succeed Lieutenant General Walter L. Sharp as director of the Joint Staff in February 2008, another three-star position.***”
“Normally a routine process, McChrystal’s Senate confirmation was stalled by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee who sought more information about the alleged mistreatment of detainees by Special Operations troops under McChrystal’s command in Iraq and Afghanistan. After meeting with McChrystal in private, the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmed his reappointment as lieutenant general in May 2008 and he became director of the Joint Staff in August 2008. With his June 10, 2009 Senate approval to take command in Afghanistan, McChrystal was promoted to General. Shortly after McChrystal assumed command of NATO operations, Operation Khanjar commenced, marking the largest offensive operation and the beginning of the deadliest combat month for NATO forces since 2001.”
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And it has been getting steadily worse since he took over. He has completely disregarded the safety and security of the Troops under his command, OURS as well as other country’s.
They will not stay there under McChrystal much longer.
Our Troops are nothing more than cannon fodder over there. They are not allowed to engage the enemy. They are not even allowed to defend themselves.
This is insane. The whole thing is insane.
If we are there because of pakistan, then it’s Pakistan we need to deal with on a much more aggressive level. Instead we baby them.
ENOUGH of this.