Wow, as much as I disagree with President Obama & his politics, you can not have the military disrespect the President, there are other ways to speak out. Now, of course, is what General McChrystal accurate with what was said and politically this is damaging to President Obama, of course one way or the other General McChrystal is going to be out of a job, but, these are going to be talking points that President Obama does not get along with the military.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_ ... al_enemies
Stanley McChrystal is ordered to D.C. after making derogatory remarks about President Obama and others.
The article in this week's Rolling Stone depicts McChrystal as a lone wolf on the outs with many important figures in the Obama administration and unable to persuade even some of his own soldiers that his strategy can win the war.
The interview describes McChrystal, 55, as "disappointed" in his first Oval Office meeting with Obama. The article says that although McChrystal voted for Obama, the two failed to connect from the start. Obama appointed McChrystal to lead the Afghan effort in May 2009. Last fall, though, Obama called McChrystal on the carpet for speaking too bluntly about his desire for more troops.
"I found that time painful," McChrystal said in the article, on newsstands Friday. "I was selling an unsellable position."
Obama agreed to dispatch an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan only after months of study that many in the military found frustrating. And the White House's troop commitment was coupled with a pledge to begin bringing them home in July 2011, in what counterinsurgency strategists advising McChrystal regarded as an arbitrary deadline.
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