time to fire mcchrystal....if a military commander connot control his message he should be gone

[spanone]

the President IS the Commander in Chief

leaks at this level do not 'just happen'

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. Absolutely agree,

McCheney needs to be removed.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

15. The original document had information that would have put

soldiers at risk. The media that released the story negotiated with the Pentagon on editing these items
from the published story. If McCrystal were indeed responsible, he should be court martialled at the very least.

[berni_mccoy]

2. Yep.

[spanone]

3. so the general has taken his story directly to the people? this is bullshit

this was a memo between mcchrystal and the President.

i'd have the general's ass in front of my desk pronto.

[sharp_stick]

4. I don't know about you

but back when shrubbie was CinC I remember a lot of people around here plenty pissed that he let commanders go for that very reason.

I don't think Mc Chrystal is over the line yet, not to the level of Douglas MacArthur at least. One of his roles is to advocate an opinion, a leader at his level that just toes the line is a wasted space. It doesn't always have to be the opinion his boss has and his boss will have the final say. If Obama came back and told Mc Chrystal how it was going to be the opinions would end.

He's high enough up the food chain that he's allowed a long long leash regarding military matters.

[spanone]

5. i don't recall the ex-asshole firing any commanders...link?

edit...he's still an asshole

but seriously, i don't recall any iraq or afghanistan commanders under bu$h* going to the media to get their story out and him firing them.....???

[sharp_stick]

9. General George Casey

"fired", "asked to retire" "cashiered" pick your terminology, February 8, 2007 because of his opposition to a troop surge being brought forward by shrubbo. Replaced by General David Petraeus.

The quote that got him shit-canned from January 2007:

"The longer we in the U.S. forces continue to bear the main burden of Iraq’s security, it lengthens the time that the government of Iraq has to take the hard decisions about reconciliation and dealing with the militias. And the other thing is that they can continue to blame us for all of Iraq’s problems, which are at base their problems. It’s always been my view that a heavy and sustained American military presence was not going to solve the problems in Iraq over the long term."

Man people around here were pissed that shrubbo wouldn't listen to his commanding General in Iraq.

A decent link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Casey,_Jr.

[spanone]

14. i wasn't one of them. casey was as right as mcchrystal is wrong.

i think a commander has a right to disagree with his commander in chief, but not thru bob woodward and the washington post.

[Zen Democrat]

6. You are right. And especially leaks to Bob Woodward - The Agency Man!

[DefenseLawyer]

7. Truman had to fire MacArthur

Just one more lesson to be learned from the old haberdasher.

[Triana]

8. McChrystal should have never been chosen, and he's a damn psychopath...

....I agree w/ you.

[Gman2]

10. WTF is up with that anyway? He is a kook. Why do we need a moslem annihilist.

[Triana]

16. I wish I knew. I posted here (it's in my Journal) about McChrystal and what a mad man he is

I'm SURE Obama must've known - yet he chose him anyway. Can't grok it.

[Festivito]

11. Does he want to get out before it falls apart? /nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Time to fire him, but not for the leak. For what's in the leak.

Escalating a lost war is downright stupid.

[ddeclue]

13. yeah they do...just ask Nixon..

If the General caused the leak then that's a problem. If some underling wanted to embarass the Obama admin the it is the underling's problem.

[spanone]

17. the buck stops with the general...