The Hidden General Stan McChrystal runs 'black ops.' Don't pass it on

Newsweek ^ | June 26, 2006 | Michael Hirsh and John Barry

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June 26, 2006 issue - No one would have mentioned his name at all if President George W. Bush hadn't singled him out in public. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, West Point '76, is not someone the Army likes to talk about. He isn't even listed in the directory at Fort Bragg, N.C., his home base. That's not because McChrystal has done anything wrong—quite the contrary, he's one of the Army's rising stars—but because he runs the most secretive force in the U.S. military. That is the Joint Special Operations Command, the snake-eating, slit-their-throats "black ops" guys who captured Saddam Hussein and targeted Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.

JSOC is part of what Vice President Dick Cheney was referring to when he said America would have to "work the dark side" after 9/11. To many critics, the veep's remark back in 2001 fostered his rep as the Darth Vader of the war on terror and presaged bad things to come, like the interrogation abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. But America also has its share of Jedi Knights who are fighting in what Cheney calls "the shadows." And McChrystal, an affable but tough Army Ranger, and the Delta Force and other elite teams he commands are among them.

After the Zarqawi strike, multinational forces spokesman Gen. Bill Caldwell refused to comment on JSOC's role, saying, "We don't talk about when special operating forces are involved." But when Bush revealed to reporters that it was McChrystal's Special Ops teams that had found Zarqawi, Caldwell had to gulp and say (to laughter), "If the president of the United States said it was, then I'm sure it was."

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I'm always campainging--one way or another.

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Glad Stan McChrystal will be running things in that part of the AOR. Al qaeda and the taliwhackers are about to get a huge, harsh dose of Spec Ops whoop ass. I do find it humorously ironic though that Obambi has thrown his lot with a man who was vilified as a torturer by the libs in congress and the media while serving in Iraq under the Bush administration. I guess Stan must have attended Obambi’s re-education camp or something before being selected for his rush assignment. /s/

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McChrystal is a funny name-—dont ya think? I mean Kristol is less Irish sounding, but more attune to the type of promotons that have been made in the military of late