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Gen. Stanley McChrystal Tells Army He'll Retire
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 28) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the stalemated 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. The general submitted formal retirement papers, but it is not clear when he will leave the service because the process usually take a few months. In announcing McChrystal's ouster on Wednesday, President Barack Obama praised his long Army career but said his intemperate remarks in a magazine article that appeared last week could ...
Majority Backs Obama's Firing of Stanley McChrystal
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAmericans approve of President Obama's decision to remove Gen. Stanley McChrystal from his command in Afghanistan by 53 percent to 30 percent, with 17 percent undecided, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted June 25-26. Those who said they had followed the story very closely approved by an even greater margin, 64 percent to 33 percent. Following the account published in Rolling Stone magazine reporting the disparaging remarks made by McChrystal and his staff about others in the White House and administration involved in Afghanistan policy, there has been little public criticism of ...
General McChrystal: An Army of None
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June Marks NATO's Deadliest Month of Afghan War
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 24) -- June has become the deadliest month for foreign forces in the entire nine-year war in Afghanistan. The number of troop deaths so far this month crossed the grim milestone quietly, overshadowed by President Barack Obama's acceptance of the top U.S. commander's resignation for his comments in a magazine profile in which he and his aides criticize the Obama administration and poke fun at several civilian officials overseeing the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was replaced Wednesday by Gen. David Petraeus, who has overseen the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as head of the U.S. Central ...
Petraeus Takes Command as Afghan War Problems Escalate
By not in system - AOL News(June 23) -- For the second time in his career, Gen. David Petraeus has been handed control of a war that seems unwinnable. Within hours of relieving Gen. Stanley McChrystal Wednesday, President Obama named Petraeus, who was the top commander in Iraq at that war's lowest ebb, as the new top commander in Afghanistan. ...
Exit McChrystal, Enter Petraeus: 10 Facts About the New Afghanistan Commander
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyNow that President Obama has appointed Gen. David Petraeus to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal, it's time to take a look at the new four-star general in charge of the war in Afghanistan. Petraeus, 57, is currently the commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for the military in the Middle East and Central Asia, and as such he was McChrystal's direct boss. But he brings more than that to the post: 1. He wrote the Army's new counterinsurgency manual. In 2005, Petraeus was the head of the Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. With a team of ...
Obama Replaces McChrystal With Petraeus: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama announced today that he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus. McChrystal's ouster was precipitated by a now-infamous Rolling Stone article published online Tuesday which depicted "The Runaway General" and his staff making critical comments of Obama administration officials. McChrystal had been in charge in Afghanistan for the past year, under which time the situation on the ground had continued to deteriorate into violence and civil instability, despite a ...
5 Reasons Obama Should Not Have Let McChrystal Go
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(June 23) -- President Barack Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as his Afghanistan war commander. To the vast majority of pundits, Obama had no choice because of the uproar caused by a Rolling Stone article in which the general and his aides made disparaging remarks about top civilian officials -- including the vice president. But before the president announced McChrystal's resignation this afternoon, a few commentators argued against dumping the architect of the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. 1. McChrystal Really Isn't a Bad Guy Brookings Institution ...
Transcript of President Obama's Remarks on Gen. Stanley McChrystal
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA DELIVERS REMARKS ON GENERAL STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL JUNE 23, 2010 [*] OBAMA: Good afternoon. Today I accepted General Stanley McChrystal's resignation as commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. I did so with considerable regret, but also with certainty that it is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military, and for our country. I'm also pleased to nominate General David Petraeus to take command in Afghanistan, which will allow us to maintain the momentum and leadership that we need to succeed. I don't make this ...
Gen. Petraeus to Take Over for Gen. McChrystal in Afghanistan
By David Knowles - Politics DailyGen. David Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, will assume direct control of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after Gen. Stanley McChrystal turned in his resignation to President Barack Obama on Wednesday. At the White House, Obama made the announcement that Petraeus, who fainted while giving testimony at a congressional hearing on Afghanistan last week, will begin his new assignment immediately. "This is a change in personnel, but not a change in policy," Obama said. Flanked by Petraeus, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff ...
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