McChrystal Wrong Man for the Job

By Matthew Rothschild, May 12, 2009

Obama has just made a terrible choice in his new commander for Afghanistan ...

It was McChrystal, after all, who approved a medal for Pat Tillman, the former NFL star, saying he fell under “devastating enemy fire.” But just a day later, McChrystal warned the White House that it might have been friendly fire, not enemy fire.

And, according to Seymour Hersh, McChrystal was the guy who was running Cheney’s assassination squads. From 2003-2008, McChrystal headed the Joint Special Operations Command, which Hersh called “an executive assassination wing” that reported directly to Cheney’s office.

What’s more, Esquire has reported that McChrystal authorized torture at a secret camp, where two detainees died under interrogation, and expressly prohibited the Red Cross from entering the camp, which would be a double violation of the Geneva Conventions ...

http://www.progressive.org/wx051209.html

he knew about the Pat Tillman lie from the get go

and why did Gates fire his predecessor?

waist deep in the big muddy

and Rummy at the VA and be done with it? :wtf: