U.S Commander of Afghanistan Forces General McChrystal Resigns

[Watchman]

U.S Commander of Afghanistan Forces General McChrystal Resigns
Posted on 23 June 2010 5:30 am .

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General Stanley A. McChrystal is the United States’ Commander for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander for U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A). General McChrystal formerly served as the Director of Joint Staff from 2008 to 2009.

Moreover, McChrystal was a Commander of Joint Special Operations Command in the year 2003 to 2008,b where he garnered appraisal for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in Iraq. However, McChrystal also received various criticisms for his alleged participation in covering up the Pat Tillman friendly fire incident.

One of the main reason for having his current appointment is the McChrystal has the reputation for thinking and saying what other military officials and leaders are frightened to, which he presumed on June 15, 2009. This was followed by some negative remarks towards the vice president of U.S and other administration officials.

And recently, according to Joe Klein of Time Magazine, one of America’s top commander’s in Afghanistan, General McChrystal, submitted his resignation.

The said resignation comes after McChrystals irresponsible remarks were made together with his staff during a Rolling Stone interview. This story about McChrystal’s unflattering remarks towards top civilian authorities, which includes Vice President Joe Biden, will appear on Friday’s edition of Rolling Stone that was written by Michael Hastings.

U.S. President Obama immediately summoned McChrystal to the White House after the news has reached into his knowledge when the said interview was publicized. According to Obama, McChrystal showed “poor judgment,” but he still wants to talk to the general “directly” tomorrow before the president decides to McChrystal’s providence.

And as of earlier today, McChrystal apologized stating that the said article was a “mistake” that reflects a poor judgement.

According to the general, throughout in his entire career, he has lived by the values of personal honor and professional integrity. He even added that what was imposed in the article falls far short of that standard. McChrystal even said that he has high respect and admiration for the current U.S. President and its national security team.

And as for McChrystal’s reported resignation, USA Today clarifies:

“It’s standard for officials at his level to offer their resignation at times like this,” reminding us that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tendered his resignation several times during the Bush administration, such as when the Abu Ghraib prison abuse became public. Former President Bush did not accept it until the 2006 midterm elections.

“So we could have a situation in which the resignation is there, and it’s up to Obama to take it or not.”

This only proves that McChrystal himself to be disreputable, and not worthy for the Presidant’s trust. General McChrystal is obviously blameworthy for commtting insubordination and disrespect. According to some people, McChrystal should undergo on a court martial for doing such behavior.

 

[jacobsgoh]

He is one lucky GI, Obama lets him off the hook so lightly, if kana lky sure he'll be sued until have to sell his children.

 

[Watchman]

General McChrystal’s Burning Contempt for the Puppet Obama

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 22, 2010

The farce that is the war in Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. General Stanley McChrystal’s sharp comments about Obama, Biden, and the administration published by Rolling Stone are not so much about disrespect, as the script-reading corporate media talking heads would have it, but rather about a policy in disarray in Afghanistan.

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Obama the wunderbar teleprompter reader (and little else) is instructed to push the completely untenable prospect that the United States can win the so-called war in Afghanistan, a country often referred to as the graveyard of empires. The British, the Russians, Alexander the Great, and Genghis Khan either fell to the Afghans or made painful concessions. The British suffered one of their greatest military defeats in the Khyber. 16,500 British soldiers and civilians, retreating after defeat in Kabul, were slaughtered by the Afghans. One person was spared to tell the story.

The establishment knows it cannot “win” in Afghanistan and the claim the U.S. military is there to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda is nothing but transparent propaganda.

Afghanistan is a black hole sucking up men and machinery for the sake of death merchant profiteers. It is valuable real estate to be held — not conquered — real estate where opium grows for the sake of CIA off-the-books operating capital funding covert wars against enemies of the global elite. The fantastic profits earned from opium also flood the coffers of the masters of the casino economy on Wall Street. As Catherine Austin Fiits has documented, without this influx of laundered underground and illicit money Wall Street would have collapsed long ago.

After the so-called Afghanistan assessment was supposedly leaked to the CIA’s favorite newspaper last year — the report recommended in Pentagon-speak securing the population, aiding in providing good governance, building and mentoring the Afghan security forces — McChrystal threatened to resign if he was not provided with resources to accomplish the mission.

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In other words, McChrystal said he needs more troops, something our rulers will not do. Not because it is politically unpopular, but because the mission in Afghanistan is not to win. The unstated mission is to chew up men, resources, and a lot of money loaned out by international banksters. The mission is to keep an unwinnable conflict on low heat indefinitely, or at least until the United States collapses from the crushing debt burden.
McChrystal made his opinion about the corporatization of the “war” known in April when he criticized the use of private-sector contractors. “I actually think we would be better to reduce the number of contractors involved.” He suggested increasing the number of troops “if necessary,” or “using a greater number of Afghan contractors, or Afghans to help with the mission,” according to the Boston Globe.
Instead of acting as the CEO of a floundering occupation designed to last forever, McChrystal hinted he would resign. “Three officers at the Pentagon and in Kabul told McClatchy that the McChrystal they know would resign before he’d stand behind a faltering policy that he thought would endanger his forces or the strategy,” it was reported last September.
Now McChrystal and his boys are making sarcastic and derogatory — even adolescent — remarks about Obama and Biden in the presence of Rolling Stone journalists. McChrystal realizes this behavior will likely result in his forced resignation. He has obviously arrived at a decision to publicly express his contempt for Obama and the administration.
Contempt for the Chicago Mafia errand boy and accomplished teleprompter reader is now a popular sport not only in Washington but around the country. He will likely go down as the most reviled puppet of the ruling elite in modern history.

Another marionette awaits behind the curtain.

 

[scoobyhoo]

he is lucky, as in some, he may be sentenced to jail and awarded canings across his bare buttocks in court marshall.

 

[shelltox]

for speaking the politically incorrect truth