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Pentagon Inquiry Clears McChrystal of Wrongdoing
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A Pentagon inquiry into a Rolling Stone magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to his dismissal as the top US commander in Afghanistan has cleared him of wrongdoing. The probe's results released Monday also called into question the accuracy of the magazine's report last June, which quoted anonymously people around McChrystal making disparaging remarks about members of President Barack Obama's national security team, including Vice President Joe Biden. At the time he dismissed McChrystal, Obama said the general had fallen short of "the standard that should be set ...
Report: Tillman's Mother Wants McChrystal Off Military Families Commission
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe mother of a well-known Army Ranger killed in the war in Afghanistan says retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal was involved in the cover-up of her son's death and should be fired from his new post on a White House commission for military families. Mary Tillman, whose son Pat Tillman was infamously killed by friendly fire in 2004, says McChrystal's appointment as a co-chairman of first lady Michelle Obama's "Joining Forces" campaign is an embarrassment to president Barack Obama and a slap in the face to military families. Tillman said the former general, who was relieved of command in ...
First Lady Wants You: To Help Military Families
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Drawing in everyone from Best Buy's Geek Squad to the Afghan war commander fired by her husband, Michelle Obama ramped up her campaign to support military families on Tuesday and prodded everybody else in the country to get in on the act. The first lady, joined in the East Room by the president and Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill, launched "Joining Forces," an initiative to help military families who face a long list of unique challenges, such as moving around a lot and having a parent or spouse facing wartime perils far away. Mrs. Obama didn't dangle federal grants or ...
Rolling Stone: General Deployed Psy-Ops Against US Senators
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe U.S. Army ordered a "psychological operations" team to manipulate visiting U.S. senators into pushing for more funding and troops for the war in Afghanistan, according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine. Three-star U.S. general Lt. Gen. William Caldwell is accused of deploying propaganda techniques, which the Army says are intended to "alter the behavior of foreign populations," against visiting U.S. dignitaries to Afghanistan in a potentially illegal, months-long operation to lobby Congress. Caldwell is responsible for the training of Afghan security forces. Gen. David Petraeus, the ...
Rolling Stone's Army Psy-Ops Story Is Out; Twitter Already Making 'Goat' Jokes
By JJ Helland - AOL NewsIt looks like Rolling Stone has another hit. The magazine dropped an online bombshell late last night, publishing an article claiming the Army ordered "psychological operations" to be used against visiting U.S. lawmakers in Afghanistan. Why? Because the military supposedly wanted to drum up more support for the war effort there. Some pretty serious stuff. But not so serious that folks on the Web won't joke about it! As you can imagine, some Twitter-ites started cracking wise immediately, specifically in reference to the film "The Men Who Stare at Goats." Don't remember the flick? This'll ...
2010 News Quotes Quiz: Who Said It?
By not in system - AOL News2010 was such a bumpy ride that this quote epitomizes the year: "Heads down! Stay down!" That's what a flight attendant shouted over and over as an airliner made an emergency landing at New York's JFK Airport in September. Of course, the moment was recorded on cell phone video and watched by millions. Here are 10 more quotes that capture some of the spirit of 2010. Do you know who said each one? Click here to get the answers. 1. "There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do. You know, I'd like my life back." Getty Images | AP 2. "I will take you out, buddy!" AP | ...
Give Thanks That You're Not One of These Turkeys
By Ben Muessig - AOL News
(Nov. 25) -- It's the time of year for giving thanks -- thanks for not being one of the birdbrains behind some of this year's most embarrassing headlines. From dodo politicians to cuckoo celebrities, 2010's headlines have been stuffed with turkeys. Yes, turkeys -- those good-for-nothing newsmakers who have made us flapping mad at one time or another during the year. Here are our choices for the year's biggest news turkeys, complete with rankings of their fowlness. At the bottom of our list, vote on who you think the year's biggest turkey is. Toledo, Ohio, Police ...
McChrystal Inquiry Short on Answers
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 22) -- As the U.S. government and military analysts fret about the "divided" White House war policy supposedly portrayed in Bob Woodward's forthcoming book "Obama's Wars," it's worth recalling this summer's other sensational war expose, the one that got Gen. Stanley McChrystal ousted from his post as commander in Afghanistan. The New York Times reports today on the Army's investigation into the insubordinate remarks made by members of McChrystal's staff in front of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings. The upshot of the inquiry for McChrystal and his senior staff is that they were ...
McChrystal to Teach Yalies About 'Coping With Failure'
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal isn't heading up military operations in Afghanistan anymore, but he appears ready to take the classroom by storm. The syllabus is out for his fall leadership course at Yale, where the former four-star general will school graduate students on the intricacies of "coping with failure," "navigating politics" and "the effect of modern media." McChrystal gathered plenty of first-hand course material for the seminar earlier this year, when he was forced to resign after publicly criticizing top White House officials in a much talked-about Rolling Stone ...
Analysis: Obama 'Resigned' to Being Wartime President
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- When President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office tonight to announce the formal end of combat in Iraq, he will sit where another Democratic commander in chief explained to the nation how another war had defeated his hopes for re-election. If the Vietnam War ended Lyndon Johnson's political career, it remains to be seen whether the continuing war in Afghanistan will contribute to making Obama, whose approval ratings hover below 50 percent, a one-term president. But there is one legacy he shares with Johnson and other recent Democratic presidents: a ...
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