Wednesday, June 23, 2010

McChrystal comments shock spec ops officers - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times

McChrystal comments shock spec ops officers - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times: "Special operations officers who have worked closely with Gen. Stanley McChrystal declared themselves “shocked” and “floored” by comments attributed to him and his staff in a Rolling Stone article that has jeopardized his position as senior military commander in Afghanistan.
But the officers differed on whether President Obama should fire McChrystal for the comments, which included the general and his aides joking disparagingly about Vice President Joe Biden and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who is the U.S. special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a McChrystal aide referring to National Security Advisor James Jones, a retired Marine general, as “a clown” who is “stuck in 1985.”"