Thank God for Stanley McChrystal

Say what you will about Bush, he always knew to listen to his Generals.

Furious President Obama summons Gen. Stanley McChrystal to D.C.

The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration.

The face to face comes as pundits are already calling for McChrystal to resign for insubordination.

McChrystal has been instructed to fly from Kabul to Washington today to attend Obama’s regular monthly security team meeting tomorrow at the White House.

The article, titled "The Runaway General", appears in the magazine later this week. It contains a number of jabs by McChrystal and his staff aimed not only at the president but also at Vice President Joe Biden, special envoy Richard Holbrooke, Karl Eikenberry, the ambassador to Afghanistan, and others.

McChrystal described his first meeting with Obama as disappointing and said that Obama was unprepared for the meeting.

National Security Adviser Jim Jones is described by a McChrystal aide as a “clown” stuck in 1985.

via politico

sickening what people will do in the name of religion

i hope these assholes die a slow, painful death. if that was my son/father/brother i'd gladly spend the rest of my life in prison just to remove that plague from existence.

Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees
BALTIMORE - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from Kansas was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006.

Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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training the afghan troops

unreal how far behind these guys are.

i'll put a jihad on you

obama does not write letters to families of soldiers that commit suicide

this is appalling, regardless of mental condition these men and women died while in service to their country.
Why Obama Doesn't Write Families of Soldiers Who Commit Suicide
Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports on a longstanding White House policy that Presidents do not send condolence letters to families of U.S. soldiers who commit suicide.
Military suicides are "almost sure to top last year's grim totals," the Associated Press reported earlier this month, while noting that "a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could mean the Army is starting to make progress in stemming them."

The Journal reports that the family of 25-year-old Army specialist Chancellor Keesling, who killed himself in Baghdad this summer, is "mounting a lobbying effort" to get the White House to overturn its policy, and that "a bipartisan array of lawmakers from their home state of Indiana" has joined their efforts.

A White House spokesman said a review of the policy has begun.

full story via huffpo

warship built with steel from World Trade Center

pretty badass idea.
Navy Ship Built With World Trade Center Steel

The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.
full story via foxnews

unbelievable pictures from Afghanistan

see the rest of them here

obama allowing russian inspections of U.S. nuclear sites

but at least he got something for it right? especially after we pussied out of the missile defense shield in poland right? maybe some help with iran? some kind of political tit-for-tat?

Nope.

i don't care how much you hate bush, putin knows he could have never pulled this shit with him. read these two stories. if they don't piss you off, you don't have a pulse.
Tentative Inspection Program Would Allow Russia to Visit U.S. Nuclear Sites
Russia and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads.
full story here

'Too early' to focus on Iran sanctions: Russia's Putin
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that it was "too early" to discuss sanctions against Iran, as world powers try to defuse the standoff over Tehran's disputed nuclear program.
full story here

one of the best war movies ever

just watched "the hurt locker" last night, one of my new favorite movies of all time. it follows a bomb squad unit in Iraq, see the trailer below then go see the movie.