General Stanley McChrystal faces sack after 'wimps in the White House' comments

UK Mail Online ^ | 06-23-2010 | Daniel Bates

[BobP]

A shamed General Stanley McChrystal was ordered to meet the President after being quoted as saying his 'real enemy' are 'the wimps in the White House'.

[BobP]

McChrystal, the architect of the counter-insurgency in Afghanistan, mocks Vice President Joe Biden and says that Mr Obama was 'disappointing'.

He also brands a senior defence advisor 'a clown' and tears into the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan for 'betrayal' in an article in Rolling Stone magazine.

The situation poses a tough dilemma for President Obama, who faces the choice of either being seen as tolerating insubordination from the military or shaking up the chain of command at a perilous moment in the unpopular nine-year-old war.

Controversy: General McChrystal pictured on the first two pages of the Rolling Stone feature which has sparked speculation that he might be fired by President Obama

The piece has shocked senior commanders and politicians from Washington to the Pentagon and beyond and prompted an immediate apology from McChrystal.

Obama, described as furious about the article in private but speaking in measured tones in public, issued a stern rebuke to McChrystal and said he would talk directly to the general before making a final decision.

'I think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed poor judgment,'Obama told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

U.S. officials said they expected McChrystal, the U.S. and Nato commander in Afghanistan and architect of Obama's war strategy, to offer his resignation and allow the president to to decide whether to accept it.

Defence secretary Robert Gates said in a statement: 'I read with concern the profile piece on General Stanley McChrystal.

‘I believe that General McChrystal made a significant mistake and exercised poor judgment in this case.'

The row marks a new low between Mr Obama and the military.

He frustrated top commanders by postponing the dispatch of an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan for months while he assessed the situation.

Relations were further strained by the White House's commitment to start leaving home by July 2011, in what counterinsurgency strategists advising General McChrystal regarded as an arbitrary deadline. Last autumn he had to discipline the military leader for being too forthright in his demands for more troops.

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WAKE UP AMERICA

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[DeaconRed]

Since he VOTED for ZERO I have ZERO sympathy for him.
He had to know the idiot was not qualified to run a McDonalds must less the COUNTRY. . . .

[driftdiver]

He had to know the idiot was not qualified to run a McDonalds lemonade stand much less the COUNTRY

There fixed it.

[ViLaLuz]

Obama says McChrystal showed poor judgment???

[Ann Archy]

AMEN!

[freedomfiter2]

Saying that individuals in the White House are wimps is denegrating to wimps.

[Caipirabob]

Gotta love what the street talk is:

1) It took Obama 2 months to meet with the heads of BP, but 1 day to call in the general because his whiney bitch feelings were hurt.

2) Obama can't make the time to read the AZ SB1070 immigration law which is 10 pages, but has unlimited hours to read "Rolling Stone Magazine". Does he keep it next to his copy of "Great American Glory Holes" I wonder?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Linked article, typical mediocre journalism.
Its photo of 0bama with a fly on his lip...
PRICELESS.

[Pollster1]

[Eye of Unk]

At the very core of this mess is the one thing that I do respect, a man is judged not solely by his words but by his actions.

This action speaks of patriotism.

To whom does the military ultimately work for? An elected person by hook or crook, or a document called the US Constitution?

I fervently hope the whole and complete military complex decides to question Obamas decisions.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Thank you Pollster!
FRiends, behold post 9, Obeelzebub is at it again.

[Bender2]

This just in... Kent Brockman reporting--

General Stanley McChrystal's supporters... picketed the Pentagon today.

Film... at 11!

[Jonah Vark]

How can General McChrystal win a war when his troops are forced to use Obama’s rules of engagement?

Rules of Engagement or Disengagement?
By Jim Kouri, CCP

……..….U.S. troops involved in President Barack Obama’s much-heralded military surge in Afghanistan are complaining about the new rules of engagement to which they must adhere. As a result of alleged killings of innocent civilians by Afghan and NATO troops, the Pentagon has promulgated strict rules that force soldiers and Marines to hold their fire until they are certain the individuals they face are armed.
READ MORE............
http://sonoranweeklyreview.com/?p=2720