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A Commander Who Has a Pair!!
1 posted on 09/22/2009 7:47:30 AM PDT by CWW
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On Thursday, Gates danced around the question of when the administration would be ready to receive McChrystal's request, which was completed in late August. "We're working through the process by which we want that submitted," he said.

That is one of the damnedest things I've ever heard. Just think about it.

244 posted on 09/22/2009 3:28:46 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Wow was I wrong. Obama is a real worm. McChrystal is serving him a cold, cold lunch.


245 posted on 09/22/2009 3:39:33 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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I have to say that I’m suspicious of McMaster. He accepted Onada’s ROE without even a whimper.

But it looks like he may have decided to pick his fight—and an Afghan Surge is it. I like his timing, in any case. Drops one more negative into The Dear Leader’s lap.

If Onada fires him, it’ll just fire up the conservative base even more. I hope as many folks as can are gearing up for “Can You Hear Us Now” campaigns being planned for multiple cities around the country. I plan to attend the one in Manhattan on the 17th of October.


248 posted on 09/22/2009 4:04:14 PM PDT by dools007
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The 1st Idiot is using the lives of our troops to pay for his delay in making a damned decision.

It’s either a war or it’s not. If the 1st Idiot isn’t willing to do what needs to be done, then get our people the hell out of there.


256 posted on 09/22/2009 5:30:52 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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Adding to the frustration, according to officials in Kabul and Washington, are White House and Pentagon directives made over the last six weeks that Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, not submit his request for as many as 45,000 additional troops because the administration isn't ready for it.

Too Fracking Bad! Submit the request!

257 posted on 09/22/2009 5:32:04 PM PDT by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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I don’t know where this article got the idea that McChrystal has threatened to resign. He has NOT. The only talk of resignation came from unknown sources who said the McChrystal THEY know would resign. McChrystal is no hero here. Not by a longshot.

Quote from article:
Three officers at the Pentagon and in Kabul told McClatchy Newspapers that the McChrystal they know would resign before he would stand behind a faltering policy that he thought would endanger his forces or the strategy.

Here is the original article:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343591/posts

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McChrystal: More Forces or ‘Mission Failure’ (Drudge headline)
Monday, September 21, 2009 9:30:53 AM · 36 of 121
MestaMachine to silverleaf; 444Flyer
“McChrystal makes clear that his call for more forces is predicated on the adoption of a strategy in which troops emphasize protecting Afghans rather than killing insurgents or controlling territory. Most starkly, he says: ‘[I]nadequate resources will likely result in failure. However, without a new strategy, the mission should not be resourced.’”
The true context of McChrystal’s call, (piss be upon him,) for more Troops is in the first line of a paragraph far down the aricle.
It is NOT his goal to protect our WARRIORS.
It is NOT his goal to defeat the Taliban.
It is NOT his goal to protect the National Security of this country!

The headline for this article is GROSSLY misleading.

Me to McChrystal:
YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE UNIFORM! YOU ARE BETRAYING OUR WARRIORS!

ME TO THE PENTAGON: When are you going to do the right thing by our TROOPS?????


260 posted on 09/22/2009 7:10:45 PM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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Contrast this with Iraq in the fall of 2006. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was fired just one day after the elections in early November. I'd forgotten about that Bush screwup. If he was gonna fire him, he should have done it earlier, maybe save us some seats.
266 posted on 09/22/2009 7:45:42 PM PDT by Selmore (Except for ending Slavery, Facism, Communism, and Nazism, War never has accomplished anything)
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If I was a general or any military leader I’d run from ostammer as fast as I could move. Ostammer is a career-killer for serious military men.


278 posted on 09/23/2009 12:47:52 AM PDT by bustinchops (Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
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Bill Roggio describes the internal struggle over Afghan war policy. The account suggests that consensus has somehow not been reached within the administration and that there are now serious divisions within the senior leadership about where the campaign in Afghanistan is going next. Policy debates - WOTH COMMENTS -—> http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/09/22/policy-debates/


282 posted on 09/23/2009 1:35:23 AM PDT by anglian
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Arc Light the poppy fields,,,Kill the poppy farmers,,,

Cut them/money off at the knees!!!

Bomb that border area to ashes,,,

Both sides,,,

Be done with it...


285 posted on 09/23/2009 2:52:23 AM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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Ping for later


288 posted on 09/23/2009 6:41:18 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (...We never faced anything like this...we only fought humans.)
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293 posted on 09/26/2009 6:18:54 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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294 posted on 09/26/2009 6:22:26 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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Bump to current situation.


296 posted on 10/31/2009 12:23:31 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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BTTT


301 posted on 11/24/2009 8:23:33 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (on roadtrip.)
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Good for him. Maybe Patraeus will follow suit.


303 posted on 11/24/2009 8:46:35 PM PST by cubreporter (.)
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