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Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan
Telegraph ^ | Oct. 5, 2009 | Alex Spillius

Posted on 10/05/2009 7:41:35 AM PDT by peggybac

The relationship between President Barack Obama and the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has been put under severe strain by Gen Stanley McChrystal's comments on strategy for the war.

According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.

The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago's unsuccessful Olympic bi

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; agenda; angrydems; barackobama; bho44; bhofascism; bhotreason; bhotyranny; cluelessinchief; commanderinchief; copenhagen; democrats; emperornoclothes; emptysuit; mcchrystal; military; notbreakingnews; obama; obamascandals; wot
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To: peggybac

How about some impeachment talk?

Americans - and someone’s relatives - are dying for what out there?

IMPEACH!


41 posted on 10/05/2009 7:56:53 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: peggybac

A better headline might be, not that 0zero is furious, but that he is “butt-hurt”.


42 posted on 10/05/2009 7:56:58 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: coon2000

Pure arrogance on the part of Obama — I couldn’t believe that picture when I found it yesterday.


43 posted on 10/05/2009 7:57:30 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: MNSlim
Didn’t you get the memo? Al Qaeda is now weak...we do not need to worry about them anymore. /s
44 posted on 10/05/2009 7:57:32 AM PDT by halo66
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To: peggybac

Truth hurts, huh? Lord have mercy, O is so inadequate.


45 posted on 10/05/2009 7:57:33 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: peggybac

He went public because he needs OUR help to support the troops.!
Obama has had the report for months and done nothing. McChrystal is protecting our soldiers and needs support!

Call the white house and contact your Representatives and tell them SEND MORE TROOPS!

White House 1-202-456-1414

Contact your Representatives at congress.org , simply put in your zip code and it will list your Representatives!

or simply google their name, for contact info.

Contact them on every little thing! The pervert nominee’s, ACORN, healthcare rationing, Cap and Tax, ALL of it! Everyday, send an email or call or both!


46 posted on 10/05/2009 7:57:40 AM PDT by Freddd
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To: gov_bean_ counter

... they are busy selling out america.

And making friends with the dictators and tyrants. You have to remember, he is taking us into post America. He is taking us to the Obamanana Republic.


47 posted on 10/05/2009 7:58:00 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: peggybac

You just have to remember the Democrats think of Vietnam as a victory. Just not for us. Which is why they are going down this road of Vietnamization for Afghanistan.


48 posted on 10/05/2009 7:58:12 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Hey Obama. Where is Osama Bin Laden?)
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To: Pit1

I remember reading General MacArthur fought the communist too..Now General Stanley has to fight the commies in the white house..


49 posted on 10/05/2009 7:59:20 AM PDT by PLD
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To: paterfamilias
Just a civilian beancounter here but it is fascinating to talk to a real soldier about the dynamics of asymmetrical warfare. A lot of the old guard don't understand it and don't like it. Perhaps Gen Jones is of the old school. For goodness sake we all know Obie isn't a risk taker.
50 posted on 10/05/2009 7:59:23 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Is it too soon for real conservatives to launch a "We Tried to Warn You Tour"?)
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To: peggybac
President Obama is finding out that when told to do unintelligent things, unlike Chicago-machine politicians, our military leaders will call him on it. This is very likely the first time Obama has had a personal encounter with integrity.
51 posted on 10/05/2009 7:59:48 AM PDT by FourPeas (Why does Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?)
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To: halo66

These pictures speak a 1,000 words and they were released by the WH. He couldn’t even pretend for a WH photo-op. This may be why Zinni and others are now going after Obama — they got snowed in the election by Obama pretending Afghanistan was a ‘good’ war and they needed more troops — all rhetoric and no substance..


52 posted on 10/05/2009 7:59:55 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: peggybac

Welcome to Afganis-Nam.


53 posted on 10/05/2009 8:00:04 AM PDT by crazyotto
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To: Hodar

I think you’re right. Obozo has to be thinking about 2010. McChrystal can’t be “handled.”


54 posted on 10/05/2009 8:00:11 AM PDT by meatloaf (Obama, Obozo ... what's the difference?)
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To: Republic of Texas

Why is it we have to read the NYT and WP as carefully and suspiciously as an old Soviet citizen read his copy of _Pravda_ or _Izvestia_?


55 posted on 10/05/2009 8:00:12 AM PDT by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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To: mort56

He can question ZObama in official correspondence anytime he wants. And he should question Obama. But it, IMO, does not matter who the POTUS is, a field or theater commander does not publicly question the orders he has been given. He either does his best to carry them out, or resigns and continues the fight in public as a private citizen. McChrystal, in London, appears to have gone over the line.


56 posted on 10/05/2009 8:00:46 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (atement)
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To: peggybac

Why? Cause he’s making you look like a big, indecisive wussy???


57 posted on 10/05/2009 8:01:12 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: peggybac
The general's comment that "we must show resolve..." must really have grated on Obama who has anything but resolution on what to do in Afghanistan. Obama's foreign policy has been nothing short of chaotic, based on naive assumptions and poorly thought out.
58 posted on 10/05/2009 8:01:41 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: peggybac

Someone should inform Obama that Afghanistan is a UN mission...


59 posted on 10/05/2009 8:01:58 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: peggybac

It reminds me of “You lie.” Some people can’t handle the truth.


60 posted on 10/05/2009 8:02:33 AM PDT by kabar
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