Gen. Stanley McChrystal Relieved of Command After Obama Meeting

[Ballygrl]

I was listening to Michael Savage at work and he doesn't like this at all and he thinks there's more to this. McChyrstal is for Don't Ask Don't Tell and Petraeus is for gays serving in the military. Michael was all over the place but he wondered if that played a part, he also thinks Obama was afraid of McChrystal, and Savage also said Obama is too thin skinned which we all know. Then he wondered if Soros played a part in this, no idea why since Soros funded the Betray-Us ad, then he went off on Soros and Goldman Sachs and saying how Goldman Sachs cashed in a few days before the BP oil spill and how Soros is heavily invested in a Brazilian company oil drilling. Like I said he went off on so many tangents my head is spinning.

[Randy]

A call to the office is a death sentence.  

At my job a summons to the "Training Room" by a manager results in a new job opening 8 out of 10 times. We always know when a massacre has been green lighted.

[thundley4]

McChrystal Tells Army He Will Retire
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the Afghanistan war, told the Army on Monday that he will retire.

Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said McChrystal, 55, notified the service of his plans, but he has not yet submitted formal retirement papers. It is not clear when he will leave the service, but the process usually take a few months.

In announcing McChrystal's ouster last week, President Obama praised the general's long Army career but said his intemperate remarks in a magazine article that appeared last week could not be abided.

McChrystal apologized for the remarks in Rolling Stone magazine and flew to Washington last week to resign as commanding general of the war.

The Army has been McChrystal's only career.

McChrystal was promoted to the selective and coveted rank of four-star general last year. It is not clear whether he will be able to retain that rank in retirement. Under Army rules, generals need to serve three years as a four-star officer to retain that rank, with its prestige and retirement benefits.

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