Posted on 06/22/2010 1:25:38 PM PDT by DGHoodini
yes I know I said than, I meant then, I am getting old.. LOL
He is saving that defense force to deal with the Crackers...
No, He van send him back to Afghanistan so that all deaths caused by the WH’s murderous ROE, can be blamed on him instead of Obama and his ‘Rats in the WH and the State Dept, and their half assed ‘Medal of “Restraint”’(?).
I’ve never held a high-level job, so I can’t be for sure, but it seems that folks like cabinet members, military chiefs and so forth are asked to put up a signed, undated resignation when they take the job.
That way the boss can use it anytime he wants. Does that make sense?
Would resigning his commission make him lose his retirement? You get paid for what you have done, not what you can do.
Just curious.
I know that Generals cannot really retire and are subject to recall.
First, a judge lifted the moratorium on offshore drilling, and now this. Obonehead is getting really wee-weed up.
I know a bunch of field grade officers that are leaving before they would have. Just tired of it....wink, wink...
Meeting still on.
As I understand it he can resign his commission but cannot get away from it by retiring. If he resigns his commission he loses his retirement pay and benefits.
That will never, ever happen. Not in a million years.
Is Joe Klein a trusted source?
Obama and the lying filth that run the “Mainstream” were able to fool a *lot* of people.
But they can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
About this puzzle palace we can only guess. It is possible that McChrystal read the statement by the Egyptian Foreign Minister in Reuters or Al Jazzera last week where the Minister assured his world that Obama had told him he is still a faithful Muslim, and asked the minister to wait a bit longer to see the proof. Whatever Obama has in mind, military officers and the judiciary are complicit. We already know that Eric Holder would hire Khalid Sheik Mohammad on the spot if he weren't tied up with some minor legal matter in New York. My guess is that McChrystal has seen enough of his soldiers die executing the political ambitions of a gaggle of committed Marxists, who will live like kings when they control the petroleum reserves of the world. If McChrystal thinks he can pacify the Muslim citizenry I recommend that he read Hirsi Ali or Wafa Sultan. (Sultan believes that only a Saudi King can reform Islam.) It is
Don’t think so, there is not going to be a 2012 election. I gaurentee it!
Refuse McChrystal’s resignation. The general is a man of honor, and no idiot. There’s a good chance he’ll show up in Washington with a resignation letter in hand. President Obama could refuse it, and then go to the public and say something like, “our efforts in Afghanistan are too important to let an unfortunate lapse of judgment like this undermine them. So I told General McChrystal that he must finish his task, and that I would not accept his resignation at this time.”
The the General should counter 'negotiate' again with his previous urgent request for the additional 'surge' troops. That our efforts in Afghanistan are too important to let an unfortunate lapse of preparation undermine the great sacrificies of our troops and the American people. The addition of these requested troops will therefore allow us to finish this task.
A lot of people said that about Obama too. >Bo)
Who blames him for resigning...working for people who don’t give a rip about the troops or the country!
Still time for a beer summit?
One can only hope.
Why change the head US ‘honcho’ now?
You don’t get to be a 4-star without knowing how to play the game. He comes from a military family. He was also a Pentagon spokesman. I would say he knew exactly what he was doing.
Given the response, or delayed response, he received to his request for troops, and no doubt little to no communication from the CinC, VPOTUS, US Ambassador, OR the Natl Security Advisor, he assumed his last option was to go public in a way that would grab their attention. They may not read his memos, but they sure read Rolling Stone!
McChrystal was made to execute new Rules of Engagement that put every soldier’s life at risk unnecessarily. At some point, any political aspirations he may have had would have to have been put aside in favor of the troops serving under him. I think for that same reason he hung in as long as he did, rather than resign long ago when it was clear this WH was not behind him or his troops.
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