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McChrystal Doesn’t Get It — Does Obama?
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Scott Ritter
Truthdig
November 3, 2009
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There is a curious phenomenon taking place in the American media at the moment: the lionization of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the American military commander in Afghanistan. Although he has taken a few lumps for playing politics with the White House, McChrystal has generally been sold to the American public as a “Zen warrior,” a counterinsurgency genius who, if simply left to his own devices, will be able to radically transform the ongoing debacle that is Afghanistan into a noble victory that will rank as one of the greatest political and military triumphs of modern history. McChrystal’s resume and persona (a former commander of America’s special operations forces, a tireless athlete and a scholar) have been breathlessly celebrated in several interviews and articles. Reporters depict him as an ascetic soldier who spouts words of wisdom to rival Confucius, Jesus and Muhammad.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Gen. McChrystal to “fix” the war in Afghanistan in the way that his boss, that earlier military prophet Gen. David Petraeus, “fixed” Iraq. Whether by accident or design, McChrystal’s mission became a cause célèbre of sorts for an American media starved for good news, even if entirely fabricated, coming out of Afghanistan. One must remember that the general has accomplished little of note during his short tenure to date as the military commander in Afghanistan. His entire reputation is built around the potential to turn things around in Afghanistan. And to do this, McChrystal has said he needs time, and 40,000-plus additional American troops. There are currently around 68,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. McChrystal’s request would raise that number to around 110,000 troops – the same number as the Soviets had deployed in Afghanistan at the height of their failed military adventure some 20 years ago.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
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roaddog6 Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
mcchrystal is one of the generals that tried to cover up the tillman thing.
Hmm. Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:23 am
I have read the same thing – Tillman was going to spill the beans about all the opium production over there, no?
And McChrystal was brought in after McKiernan was mysteriously “fired”. Obama kept Bush’s military man, Robert Gates, so to expect the Warz to remain the same, if not escalated, should only surprise the personality cultists.
roaddog6 Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
then he was killed by “friendly” fire.
Dusty Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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DieDaily Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Yeah, real friendly.
Ding Dong Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Well, you don’t need real enemies when you have such friends… oh, wait – “maybe” there were no real enemies to begin with…
semperfortis Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Aren’t Ready for Marines Yet.. A.R.M.Y.
bugsieandfinkie Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Have goodie-goodie boy McCrystal explain New York Times October 29, 2009 article “Afghan Opium Kingpin On CIA Payroll” bombshell-report lifting the lid on how brother Ahmed Wali Karzai of Afghan President Hamid Karzai -brother of the president is the kingpin of the country’s booming opium-trade and has been on the CIA payroll for the past eight-years addressing the CIA pays Ahmed Wali Karzai for variety of servies helping to recruit Afghan paramilitary that operates at the CIA direction around Kandahar in particular near his bros’ home recently ordering a tractor-trailor a block-away from his brother’s home with tons of heroin released.
Official quotes by the Times describe President Hamid Karzai as a “mafia-like figure” receiving assistance from the Bush/Obama administration to eliminate any and all opposition or threat through the CIA employing his drug-kingpin brother Ahmed Wali Karzai.
bugsieandfinkie Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Continuing to report the primary reason for Sotero aka Obama to bait and switch on Iraq to Afganistan invasion and occupation to complete the Bush agenda “to reinstate the Golden-Crescent Drug Trade.”
WAYNE PACIFIC Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
It is so hard to accept that our top leaders, including all the bush family, Clintons, and now Obama are truly major players in the international illegal drug trade.
However, the facts point to it very strongly.
What do we do with top drug dealers that are responsible for murders and death of children ? Well, we execute them. So what should we do with the Bushes, Clintons and Obama, as well as a few thousand others ? A consistent policy of justice requires that they be executed.
check her out Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
http://ihatejade.com/?id=ul1bg.....mnrwkr0ps7
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
McChrystal is head of the largest opium cartel in history….who do they think they are fooling?
Hmm. Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 am
Only the personality cultists.
“Ask not what you can do for your country, but what Obama can do for you!”
Yes We Can bomb Afghan weddings.
DieDaily Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
And women’s markets! Don’t forget the women’s markets. Obama is good for all kinds of things. Special agent Soetero to the rescue. CIA forever.
Red dawn now! Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Yes, this is disgusting, to think I was so proud of the Army I served, to have it defiled by retards such as petraeus, honore that attacked the people of New Orleans,shinseki, that rat traitor who defiled the rangers by allowing all troops to wear their berets and now this CIA lackey mutt! With a chest full of ill gotten medals…this is just despicable, these machiavellian subversives, puppets to the new world order 4th reich, burn in HELL all of you!
StarinaNovak Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
US army is missused since WWI, to serve interests of banksters.
WAYNE PACIFIC Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 1:58 am
US Army was misused way before then, going back to the War Between the States.
WW I ? Of what use was that to the American people. The British and the Jewish bankers pulled us into that for their own selfish ends.
If we had stayed out of WW I, it would have ended in a draw and the onerous conditions would not have been placed upon Germany. WW II would not have occurred, certainly not as it did.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 am
seriously enough with the plugging of your websites….ALL OF YOU STOP IT. i understand we still live in a half way capitalistic country but honestly can you have one part of your life, the fight for freedom, that isnt turned into greed.
TEXAS IdentityCrisis Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Look, I know it’s frustrating but if people are trying to get off the grid/out of the matrix….self employment is one way. If it’s something useful. Random, irrelevant spamming is STUPID, however, we must work from the ground up, some of us, and get on with creating our own economY!
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 am
We will hang them high….
Madman Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Spiritblade,
That would actually involve someone getting off the couch, getting rope, finding a good tree… and well, I haven’t seen anyone moving towards that direction.
Remember, everyone here, and everyone in the RNEM are on eternal stand down.
Red dawn now! Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
They are speaking to the near future when the mutts commit to an all out assault, when the ballon is fully extended and we are unleashed and unfettered from society and the slavery it subjects us to.
Things are going on behind the scenes you are not privvy to my friend, it’s going to happen, because they are daily forcing our hand despite the fact we give them so many chances to see the errors of their ways!
MAD DOG Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
YOU FORGET THAT GUY IN KENTUCKY, IN FACT SOMEONE HAS DONE WHAT YOU SAY WE WONT DO.
StarinaNovak Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Lamp post might serve quite well if tree is not near by …
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Wow….read the entire article. Ritter says McChrystal should be replaced with a military commander who “shares Obama’s vision of peace.”
“vision of peace??”…… wha-wha-whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??!!
What the h*ll is Ritter smoking? This is all a GAME to get the American population DEMANDING we send more of our men and women to the the New World Order Afghanistan killing fields, leaving us wide open at home to UN troops, “for our own good.”
Yo, scotty-boi, Obama = New World Order puppet
Ritter = USEFUL IDIOT of the most dangerous kind.
Red dawn now! Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
united nations troops and their handlers must be expurgated from our soil at all costs!
sharkman Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 6:32 am
here here !!!!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
Scott Ritter is “spot on”…and for the MSM to delude Americans into believing that there is a “winnable” scenario in Afghanistan is rubbish and outright lies!
Endless wars will not create sustainable jobs here! Real GAO estimates is that the Iraq & Afghanistan wars will cost us over 3 TRILLION DOLLARS…
How many bridges, roads, etc would that create that employ Americans?
I do hope all that Alex has been doing here spreads…so the American people can make informed decisions…not continually be lied to…
Great Article!
diedaily Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Gerri, how dare you suggest that we Americans benefit in any way from our own government. How terrible of you. You must be alciada. Don’t you know we’re all supposed to die for the betterment of the world at large? You must be a white, heterosexual male patriot who loves freedom and the truth. No wonder you are so evil.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Hi All.
Here is some very rare footage just appeared on the web. All about the CIA and more.
Allan Francovich – On Company Business (1980) :
http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=4495
diedaily Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Very nice link for a change. I checked it out. Fascinating. I watched the YouTube links on the left regarding Zbigniew Brzezinski. Those were great too. He admits to some mischief in Iran and even gives a historical context. What an evil, arrogant dude!!
StarinaNovak Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
It appears there is another force in the theater, but it is not yet identified.
When Paul Wolfovitz visited Kabul some time ago, whe was scared to death when several .50 cal bullets swooped in his hotel room, and those were not pistol rounds.
WAYNE PACIFIC Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Brzezinski is actually rather typical of the top international policy makers. Kissinger is much like him. When a person achieves the higher ranks he is “playing hard ball with the big boys” and must be a “realist” or loose respect in these ruling circles. At that level all hope and goodwill is dead. It is really just a sophisticated extension of the predatory animal world – kill or be killed.
These people are really no performing at the highest human potential, which is based upon mutual respect and in fact love. These boys are way off the mark and are actually sociopatheic teenagers at heart. Unfortunately, we all live at their mercy to some extent.
endDAfed Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:15 am
zb actually co founded the trilateral comiision.. hes also in obamas office .
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 am
RON PAUL 2012!!! RON PAUL 2012!!!RON PAUL 2012!!!RON PAUL 2012!!!RON PAUL 2012!!!
END ALL WARS..PEACE ON EARTH..
MAD DOG Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm
AND SAY GOOD BYE TO ANOTHER 30 MILLION DOLLARS.
LET TEXAS PAY FOR THEIR OWN CONGRESSMEN.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 am
I hope all these treasonist pigs get it, from the whitehouse to Wallstreet I say your days are numbered, we are coming, our votes count and if things dont change real quick there will be no need for a vote, we will be in civil distress.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 am
I have as yet NOT heard anyone tell me just exactly what it is that we expect to WIN in Afganistan? Is our presence there going to make the United States any safer? Why not try controlling our borders? Wouldn’t that actually make our country safer than our presence in a shit-hole country half a world away?
One of the talking-heads on CNN was saying this morning that each additional soldier sent to Afganistan could cost $500,000 each in the long run of the war. And this benefits our poor, broke country? How???
I was one of those ‘privileged’ enough to participate in our victory in Vietnam. (The only ones who won anything there was the elites, their already rich defense contractor buddies and the politicians who knew enough to invest in the right companies.
The inmates are truely running the asylum!!! Oh fuck it! Let’s just give Stanley whatever he wants and get the whole thing over with. We all know that they will do whatever they want to anyway. It doesn’t matter what any of taxpayers think or want. That hasn’t counted for a long time.
StarinaNovak Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 pm
US is not to win anything in Afghanistan, just to protect opium trade routs and opium production.
endDAfed Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:17 am
“Every Generation Need A Revolution” – Thomas Jefferson …Ummmm?? I think were overdue.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Watch Fall Of The Republic in full version and educate yourself online at: http://www.joemarquis.com/videos.htm
I took the time to build an area within my own business website where you can educate yourself by watching in Highest Quality full versions of Alex Jone’s and other’s DVD’s. A great place to start if your new or old and want to learn about the New World Order.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Military: The Hidden General EXPOSED
Stan McChrystal runs ‘black ops.’ Don’t pass it on.
newsweek
June 26, 2006 issue
- -..McChrystal has checked all the right career boxes, serving as an unflappable military briefer during the Iraq invasion, and doing fellowships at Harvard and at the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS in New York (where he would run to work from Brooklyn, about six miles away)..- -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13.....ymode/1098
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
People isnt about winning a war.Its all about drug money.And running the u.s. military into the ground.I say just nuke waziristan and get it done and over with.
MAD DOG Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
DOES ANYONE KNOW ABOUT STATE DEPT DOC 7277, THE ADDENDUM TO IT LABLED PD-89-297, DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW THE WAR POWERS AND TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT PLAY IN ALL THIS.
IF NOT.
SHUT THE FK UP, YOU HAVEN’T EVEN A 1ST GRADE NWO EDUCATION.
WAYNE PACIFIC Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 2:30 am
Please, oh prescient Mr. Mad Dog, inform we mere men as to the meaning of DOC 7277 and PD-89-297, if it isn’t beneath you to do so.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Rothschild says… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhfjSM-pgsk
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Doesn’t keeping Al Qaeda and the Taliban from getting their hands on Pakistan’s nukes seem like a pretty good reason to be there? I’m not discounting all the other things that have been mentioned as reasons, so far, but if that’s NOT the main reason we’re there, then shouldn’t it be?
Propaganda News Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Al Qaeda are the very same mujaheddin freedom fighters we supported when Russia invaded Afghanistan. Why weren’t they called terrorist insurgents then? Why was Russia called an invader? Maybe Russia was just trying to bring stability to the region like we are.
The propaganda is just so blatant it’s hard to believe everyone can’t see it for what it really is.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I say we bomb the shit out of Afghanistan, secure the pipeline, establish a Pro-US government, set up bases for internal security. Wait, didn’t the Soviets try that…?
Propaganda News Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 1:40 am
The Soviets were invaders and Al Qaeda’s mujaheddin were freedom fighters back then. It’s completely different now. We’re invited guests bringing stability to a region full of terrorist insurgents, you see.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
wars of liberation only work if the people involved want to be liberated. muslims are muslims first. the afghans have been fighting foreign occupation since the time of the ancient greeks. the brits tried and failed. the russians used brutality and genocide and they too failed. americans as a group have been pampered for too long. like their forebears before them, the people of this country will tire of the cost in lives and treasure and will demand to pull out. americans have lost the knack of being the tough guy, especially when they are facing real tough guys. the afghans will fight to the last man to throw you out of their country. americans don’t have the heart to employ terror tactics ergo they will lose. you may not lose a battle but you have weak stomachs as a people. once enough soldiers die and families start protesting the politicians will take notice and withdraw. credit the vietnamese with learning this about us. america since vietnam has eventually pulled out of every conflict we have had once the expense and cost in bodies mount. no one remember somalia? how about iraq where we are in the process of cutting and running. as it now stands our troops there are now camped out on their bases and not even allowed to go out on patrol without the approval of the iraqi military. yet, for all our toil there, all the major oil contracts have now been awarded to the chinese. think about that one for a minute, 4000 dead, 287 billion spent to date, and we get kicked out with not a dime to show for it. no wonder we are heading for bankruptcy. of course we will all live long enough to see more of our soldiers uslessly slaugtherd, billions more of money we don’t have wasted, and millions more american kids becoming drug addicts as the fruits of the afghan poppies come flooding across our still open borders. i once thought americans would wise up, see what was happening for themselves, rise up, and throw off the shackles. i no longer have such illusions. enjoy your serfdom people.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Let me try to add a little perspective to this Quagmire, if you will. First we start with the fact that the People, who called their agencies with the badges, to investigate the strange behavior of foreign speaking individuals at flight schools. They were shunned. Compromising the Security of which this great country stood for. Then comes the un-security of our air free zones. Not only did these planes hit the buildings on 9/11, but they disappeared, buildings and all, into a roiling cloud of dust. Within seconds. Are you still with me here? An illusion? Wait! A third building drops, in an uninhibited gravitational free fall, within seconds, disappearing into yet another roiling cloud of dust. An investigation called scoop and dump. Get it yet? What happened to the Emergency Broadcast System? Anybody?
An administration is allowed to open the 21st Century by going after one man and his gang, by bombing countries. Calling for a War on Terror, when War is terror in itself. The good and the bad die. It’s ugly. it’s obscene, it’s evil. For when you turn the hearts of men black with fear and hate (especially at the loss of loved ones) they think revenge gain even unto losing ones own life in that gain. It’s a sad day in hell folks. To send our young men and women into that quagmire. To try and not believe that weapons dealers are profiteering. Pharma and there drugs (let’s not leave out the most disgusting part), and the prosthesis program. I could go on, but I’m assuming you get the picture.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
THE EMPIRE ITS OWN WORSE ENEMY
[A Blog worth Reading & Joining the Discussion]
Now, we had a chance to take a look at yet another column on [www.ThinkProgress.Org.], Reconstruction for the [USA] United States of America, under the Matthew Yglesias Blog. It turned out that is sort of split into two directions, well more, but it is well worth taking a peek at, the comments are pretty good, that is if anyone even reads this, which is nuts in itself, It boiled down to The American-Israeli Empire is its own worse enemy, The [EU] European Union and the Community of Nations, should look to their own defense.
[Consummate Global Rogue]
The American-Israeli Empire has come to be recognized as hands down the consummate global community of nations rogue and beyond being its own worse enemy is that of the entire global community, with its interest in profit, wealth and power, at the expense of the entire global community of nations. Not only has Germany declared the Iraq War an illegal war, those Un-Patriotic Tea Party, Americans living outside the Empire, also are declaring the entire Islamic Crescent War for Resources and Markets Illegal, caused by the stationing of Empire forces on the Saudi [Holy Soil] and/or anywhere on the Islamic Crescent. A war that has been paid for on The Red Chinese Credit Card, Don’t have a War without one. And, what did the Empire get in return, well for [$1T/€680B] One-Trillion Dollars/Six-Hundred-Eighty-Billion Euros, it has interest to pay, while The Peoples Republic of China have gained large oil concessions from Iraq, for having displacing as many as [4M] Four Million, wounding, disabling, tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens, while at the same time killing as many as [1M] One-Million. So what does the Empire do, why they just double down, and borrow another [$700B/€477B] Seven-Hundred Billion Dollars/Four-Hundred-Seventy-Seven Billion Euros.
[Empire Military Contraction]
Now, on the [700] Seven hundred some odd Empire overseas bases, in some [300] Three hundred countries especially those located within the [EU] European Union, well it seems the [EU] has little favor with the Tea Party Un-Patriotic Americans, and they feel that the [EU] is all grown up and should be out on their own, especially when it comes to their defense, and its time for the boys to come home [All of them] with the first base closings starting with the; [4] Four in Italy, [4] Four in Germany, and [3] Three in Spain and Portugal, and last but not the least the [5] Five in the [UK] United Kingdom, and not be in a rush to defend them when some tyrant threatens them, but to only become involved as it directly effects the national security of the Empire which most likely won’t exist in its present form. The other countries that this will send a cold shiver down their backs will be The Nationalist Chinese, The South Korean, and last but not least the [SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP] State of Israel.
HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Afghanistan can be militarily conquered as the Taleban have clearly demonstrated. The west could much more easily conquer Afghanistan without so much as boot on the ground, by hosing it down with VX/Novickok nerve agents. But then the west would become the ruthlessly viscous sub-humans that the Taleban are.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
I hope that the conquest and forced democratization of Iraq and Afghanistan fails and that well run non democratic governments do a better job than democracy. And that U.S. attack voters stop reelecting mass murdering war criminals to office.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
What bank?
lolz Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:39 am
lol… I see what you did dere
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 pm
THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX
October 26, 2009
Larry Wilkerson: The beginning of the American “IMPERIAL ROME” and Eisenhower’s warning
PART1 video
http://therealnews.com/t/index.....mival=4373
PART2 video
therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4376
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX
October 26, 2009
Larry Wilkerson: The beginning of the American “IMPERIAL ROME” and Eisenhower’s warning
Larry Wilkerson: “From US debt to the geopolitics of oil, the US empire will come to an end”
Bio:
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled “National Security Decision Making.”
This talk by Larry Wilkerson was the keynote speech given at an event sponsored by the….. [read on link]
PART1 video
http://therealnews.com/t/index.....mival=4373
PART2 video
therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4376
JJ Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Transcript of the video is below the comments
November 4th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Assuming I’m elected, I will do everything in my power to end the occupation of Afghanistan, unlike my opponenet who is chair of the government reform commitee of all things. He has power but he’a hardly doing anything about this. I’m referring to one Mr. Waxman of CA.
youtube.com/user/Castaldo2010
November 4th, 2009 at 6:29 am
why do we need so many warriors to steal their heroin poppies & build a pipeline. Can it be that difficult?
November 4th, 2009 at 8:23 am
If you do choose not to vaccinate, at least take additional measures to minimize your risks of getting infected with the H1N1 virus by getting CDC approved N95 rated face masks or respirators. During the Anthrax scare, stores online and offline were running out of gas masks. Do not wait until it is too late. Start stocking up on pandemic supplies. Get daily Swine Flu Pandemic updates without the usual bullshit at http://fluhealer.blogspot.com
November 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Time to toss Mendes…??? http://poolhousemedia.com/g/