After meeting with the President earlier, AP is reporting that the President will announce that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will be relieved of his duties (more likely resigned), and that Gen. David Petraeus will assume his duties for the operations in Afghanistan.
One can only wonder what will be revealed when the book deal is inked, and McChrystal begins the Sunday talk show circuit, whic he criticized in the Rolling Stones article.
UPDATE: The President says this is a change in PERSONNEL, not in our STRATEGY.
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June 23, 2010 at 4:06 pm
gumply
First of all he voted for the usurper so that was his first mistake.
I think that the leadership in our military is disgraceful. They send our men and women over to foreign countries and tell them not to shoot unless they are shot at and not to shoot if their are civilians around.
Give me a break, if this was 1944 or 1945 they would have been court martialed and sentenced to Leavenworth if not a firing squad.
Petraeous, Meyer, Casey, Mullan, Gates, Jones, Togo to name a few are all part of the bilderberger’s. They are a disgrace to their uniforms and are guilty of treason. They took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies and instead they have joined our domestic enemies.
Power and greed that is all they know. God help this country and the people in it.
June 26, 2010 at 2:35 am
Interested Bystander
Hey All,
And now Obama has “tapped” the man who “failed” in Iraq to head the “fight” in Afghanistan.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t understand the strategy of war these days.
I believe that war is raged to BEAT someone. Not this “patty cake” game that war has become.
I believe that we should have went in with overwhelming force, and BEAT the hell out of them, until they raised the white flag, sat down in disgrace, and agreed to EVERY demand we put on the table.
Now, we tell our troops to avoid confrontation. How are we beating anyone that way?
We are afraid that the UN might pass some “resolution” stating that we were “wrong”.
It’s pitiful, honestly, to think that young men and women are over there, some 10,000 miles on the other side of the earth, and all we are doing is NOTHING.
Either kick the sh@t out of them, and get out, or bring our kids home and allow the Taliban to regain power, and we’ll wait another 30 years to deal with them.
This “nicey, nicey” crap isn’t doing anything but getting more of our military personel killed.
We should have been done and gone from both Iraq, and Afghanistan by now. It shouldn’t take 10 years to win a war, but that’s what we’ve come to.
June 26, 2010 at 4:39 am
mrje
Obama will now have to eat crow and let Petraeus pursue many of the strategies that led McChrystal to leave.
June 26, 2010 at 8:50 pm
gumply
Petraeus is a bilderberger, bought and paid for so don’t expect much; just pray for our men and women under the command of these traitors it is beyond evil.