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.
” 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.”
.... with all due respect, this country has never been in this situation before accept once back in the 1860’s
And for the General,
Let's examine
Here is some more information and links
Hmm…An AP story from 2004 entitled Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate has been discovered on archive.org by many sites (and twitter where I got this). Does this mean now that the AP is nothing but a bunch of birthers?
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations. ...
See the whole Obama 1964 divorce on Scribd.com or as 13 individual images below (in proper order):
I immediately called the clerk in Hawaii and asked where the extra page was. She looked, and counted, and said that there must be some mistake in the records she counted only 13 pages that are available for reprint. I pointed out to her that the page count she sent skipped from page 10 to page 12 page 11 was missing. To that, she suggested that perhaps the pages were simply misnumbered before they where archived into the microfiche.
I accepted her answer, not thinking much about it at the time. Perhaps it was just a clerical error in the 1960s, when hand-filed paper records and IBM punch cards were how court documents were tracked and maintained.
I have since come to learn that Obama and his team of lawyers have been working to sanitize his records since he announced that he’d run for President circa November 2004. Now in the White House, hes still ACTIVELY blocking subpoenas for such documents as his Cambridge and Occidental College records TODAY the same type of documents promised to be made available during his campaign. Obama and his lawyers are exceedingly adept at exploiting loopholes in Hawaiian birth certificate law to keep Obamas past hidden from the American people.
This missing page page 11 very likely is a copy of the original birth certificate, based upon the prima facie timeline of the 1964 divorce. The Kenya birth certificate was likely requested on Jan 23, 1964 by either Judge King (to award custody on the next trial date), or recommended to Ann Dunham by her attorney for the ex parte divorce, where only one parent was expected to be present.
The missing page, 11, should be chronologically-numbered as all other pages were in the original docket file, by the court clerk at the time. Starting at page 8, Exhibit A is placed where it would have occurred by date in the paperwork (and appeared on microfiche), even denoting an erased, yet barely-readable “8″ on both pages of the returned notification sent to Obama SR. The missing page, numbered as page 11, would likely be a page that would have been admitted to the divorce file sometime in mid- to late-February 1964 almost as if it were an undocumented Exhibit B.
Heres a very plausible timeline merging the 1964 Obama Divorce papers and new Kenya birth certificate:
Jan 20 (Mon) divorce request is filed by Stanley Ann D. Obama
Jan 23 (Thur) divorce orders for trial are given by Judge King at chambers
In Hawaii, birth certificates are not Public Record. If the Kenya birth certificate was a part of the divorce decree, it may have been pulled out at the end of the trial, or more recently by a watchful archivist or attorneys wishing to remove unfavorable information about Obama.
To date, despite other honest attempts to refute the Kenya birth certificate, such as dealing with when the Republic of Kenya came into existence as a republic have been un-bunked. Dishonest alterations of the Kenya birth certificate have been maliciously created by sites such as Democratic Underground, designed to discredit the Kenya birth certificate theyve been un-bunked as well.
Having not actually seeing the Kenya birth certificate, and its chain of evidence, no intellectually-honest person can say if its real or not. By the same token, none of us have seen or touched the short-form Certification of Live Birth that has appeared on Obamas Fight the Smears or FactCheck.org websites.
No one can confirm the chain of evidence of Obamas Certification of Live Birth that has appeared online, which is the abbreviated-version of Obamas true, 1961, original long-form(s) Certificate of Live Birth and associated vital statistics records. Even the Hawaii Department of Health directly refuses to verify Obamas online COLBs.
The Eighth Witness, Lucas Daniel Smith,
Case CLOSED!!!
In the 21st Century is it possible for anyone to rise above the rank of Lt. Col. without being a skilled politician himself?
I doubt it.
No snow cone for you!!
Exactly. Any senior military man should have made it his business to educate himself about this candidate before voting. If Obama were just another run-of-the-mill Dem - I could forgive it easily. But given who and what he is- it throws all of McCrystal’s decisions into question.
It’s hard to respect him now.
” But....so to should Obama and his failed administration for giving green light permits to BP to move forward with a hazardous situation.”
That’s the story no one wants to really focus on.
It’s called root cause, most companies know to look for it and correct it. In politics its just “ not my fault” let’s talk about how wrong you are.
How could Obama be “unprepared” for a meeting on an issue he (supposedly) spent months studying to get it right?
Hmmm....let me think....
Working for an incompetent boss is hellish. I can only imagine that if that incompetent boss is also causing the unnecessary deaths of men and women, or at least risking that, the hell is much worse.
It’s a wonder McChrystal has lasted this long without letting things slip.
I missed that story. Do you have any links?
Eisenhower never voted. I read he was scrupulous about this.
That was the old Regular Army. But even in the Old Army that was more of an ideal than reality. Most of our early generals were political, throughout the 19th century. Both politicians appointed to as generals and generals who went into politics.
In the late 19th and into 20th century, the professional tradition -- including not voting -- developed, but applied primarily below the general officer level. Truly, successful general officers have to be political in one way or another (if not especially partisan). MacArthur was tremendously political (his mother was very well connected, and his father was a Civil War general and later governor of the Philippines), so were Pershing and Patton.
Growing up, I knew lots of professional officers who did not vote, but that hasn't been true since the last of the pre-Vietnam guys (commissions pre-1960) left service.
Could it be this? Link?
That’s all possible. Of course anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together realized from the get go that “commander zero’s” loyalties lie with his brother muslims, not the American Military and he has never had any intention of winning the afghan battle in the war against the mohammadens
That would be Congress. According to me.
The man is stupid. He should have known better than to be candid in front of a reporter, especially one from Rolling Stone. I’ve learned from experience that the words one LEAST wanted repeated will be in the lead paragraph of a reporter’s story.
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