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Let's consider this for just a minute.
We are engaged in a hot war in Afghanistan.
Obama's top general there, who actually is committed to doing the war the Obama way, has a Rolling Stone anti-military, anti-war reporter embedded with his senior staff.
Said Rolling Stone reporter writes a story that is anti-military and anti-war (was anyone expecting any different?) and couched in terms understandable to a lefty readership, where he claims the general's oh-so-rude staff of snake eaters made unkind remarks in the course of a round of drinks in a Paris bar while they waited for a delayed flight.
The President, a sensitive sort, with the Vice President, a doltish sort, by his side, within a day or so of reading one of his favorite journals after Mother Jones, without substantive corroboration, fires this general, and likely much of his staff of special warriors, for the unkind remarks claimed by the writer, which, BTW, were not corroborated.
The general says "fuck it" (my words, not his, but then again, I am longer out of the Army than he is,) resigns and retires to teach at Yale where he now has unlimited access to New Haven pizza, the best around.
It turns out the article author lied and he has mysteriously declined comment since the story was published, referring all inquiries, of which there were many, to the Rolling Stone PR department, who, of course, know nothing.
McChrystal is now cleared and can hold his head high, but then I never thought he need stop.
Obama and Rolling Stone, however, need to hang their collectivized heads in shame.
A beer in the Rose Garden won't fix this.
We are engaged in a hot war in Afghanistan.
Obama's top general there, who actually is committed to doing the war the Obama way, has a Rolling Stone anti-military, anti-war reporter embedded with his senior staff.
Said Rolling Stone reporter writes a story that is anti-military and anti-war (was anyone expecting any different?) and couched in terms understandable to a lefty readership, where he claims the general's oh-so-rude staff of snake eaters made unkind remarks in the course of a round of drinks in a Paris bar while they waited for a delayed flight.
The President, a sensitive sort, with the Vice President, a doltish sort, by his side, within a day or so of reading one of his favorite journals after Mother Jones, without substantive corroboration, fires this general, and likely much of his staff of special warriors, for the unkind remarks claimed by the writer, which, BTW, were not corroborated.
The general says "fuck it" (my words, not his, but then again, I am longer out of the Army than he is,) resigns and retires to teach at Yale where he now has unlimited access to New Haven pizza, the best around.
It turns out the article author lied and he has mysteriously declined comment since the story was published, referring all inquiries, of which there were many, to the Rolling Stone PR department, who, of course, know nothing.
McChrystal is now cleared and can hold his head high, but then I never thought he need stop.
Obama and Rolling Stone, however, need to hang their collectivized heads in shame.
A beer in the Rose Garden won't fix this.
McChrystal cleared of nasty remarks
By: Gordon Lubold
September 22, 2010 05:53 PM EDT
A Pentagon investigation has determined that neither Gen. Stanley McChrystal nor the senior officers in his inner circle made the disparaging comments to Rolling Stone that led to the general’s downfall in June.
McChyrstal was relieved of his command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after a Rolling Stone article portrayed his team making snide remarks about Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Jim Jones and others.
But as first reported Wednesday by the New York Times, the Pentagon’s investigation into the case has established that McChrystal didn’t make any of the comments himself. In fact, Pentagon officials told POLITICO Wednesday that McChrystal was never even a “person of interest” in the probe.
The Times said that the investigation may now be focused on a mid-level naval officer who was also part of McChrystal’s group. But the paper said that the naval officer has told Navy officials that he did not make the remarks in question, either.
A Pentagon official told POLITICO that the investigation is ongoing.
“What they’re looking for is to see if any Army policies or guidelines or procedures were violated,” the official said.
The investigation’s preliminary conclusions come as a new book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward reveals nasty backbiting within the Obama administration over the war in Afghanistan – replete with comments that were markedly similar to those that led to McChrystal’s dismissal.
According to the Times, Woodward’s book quotes Biden calling U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke "the most egotistical bastard I've ever met” and Gen. David Petraeus – McChrystal’s replacement in Afghanistan – calling White House senior adviser David Axelrod “a complete spin doctor.”
The Rolling Stone story said McChrystal laughed when an aide referred to Biden as “Bite Me,” and it said that an unnamed McChrystal aide had called Jones a “clown.”
McChrystal, who retired with each of his four stars and now teaches a course at Yale, offered his resignation to Obama two days after the Rolling Stone story appeared in June.
Military officials began the investigation into the article at the behest of Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter Chiarelli, who wanted them to determine what if any regulations were violated before the publication of the article.
Reporter Michael Hastings, who wrote “The Runaway General” for Rolling Stone, reportedly declined to talk with the Pentagon’s investigators. Reached by email Wednesday, he declined to comment on the probe, referring POLITICO to a Rolling Stone spokesman instead.
That spokesman referred POLITICO to the magazine’s prior response to questions about the story:
“All of the unattributed quotes were provided by the general’s closest and most senior advisors, expressing attitudes that McChrystal was fully aware of and often encouraged,” the magazine said in a statement. “The most infamous comment in the piece – a mocking reference to the vice president as Joe ‘Bite Me’ – was made by one of McChrystal’s top advisers and lifelong confidante during a formal briefing, and elicited an appreciative laugh from the general.”
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