McChrystal ousted, replaced by Petraeus
President Obama dismissed Gen. McChrystal today.
“I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division,” Obama said, noting the strict code of conduct required of our military. “The strength and greatness of our military is rooted in the fact that this code applies equally to newly enlisted privates and to general officer who command them.” He stressed the importance of the chain of command “and respect for civilian control over that chain of command.”
McChrystal, who met the president briefly this morning, released a statement confirming his resignation and reiterating his support for U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
Obama replaced McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus. His standing and reputation should reassure leaders in Afghanistan and in NATO capitols while minimizing the chaos inevitable in a change of command.
Given the circumstances, the situation has been handled about as well and as swiftly as possible.
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Scout
June 23rd, 2010
9:39 pm
“Daddy, Mommy says you should start wearing epaulets on your shoulders.”
Dusty
June 23rd, 2010
9:45 pm
Wow @@,
All the retired schoolteachers in Illinois must be riding around in their Rolls Royces (just like those here in Georgia!).
Wonder when the Illinois bankruptcy proceedings start?
I leave for the evening.. So long all you night owls….
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
9:45 pm
Del…
Nine lives, you say…
“A cat in despondency sighed,
And resolved to commit suicide,
She passed under the wheels
Of eight automobiles,
And under the ninth one she died.”
Seriously, though, I’m not sure if I’ve “beat it” or not, but so far, so good. I just take every day as it comes and, I know it riles some, but every day, every minute, is a gift of the Cr-ator,,,whatever that Cr-ator may be, and, to tell you the truth, I ain’t in no big hurry to find out!
@@
June 23rd, 2010
9:46 pm
I never thought of this consequence:
Forget about all the members of Congress who are supposedly about to suffer from “Obamacare” blowback in the mid-term elections. Forget about the deficit, the bureaucracy, and any other critiques you might have heard about President Barack Obama’s health-care reform passed earlier this year. There’s a far bigger consequence looming abroad: U.S. health-care reform will exact an excruciating cost on the developing world. Here’s why: Tens of thousands of doctors are about to leave their home countries — where they are often desperately needed — to come to the United States to meet America’s growing demand.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/11/countries_without_doctors
Robbing the desperately poor of their medical personnel.
You people oughta be ashamed of yourselves.
Del
June 23rd, 2010
9:50 pm
@@,
That sure resonates. outstanding post.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 23rd, 2010
9:53 pm
Just remember…I’m not against the south or southerners… I came here by choice and of my own free will.
But Saul, two or three weeks back you referred to the area where you live as “up here in no man’s land”. You don’t recon the locals would be offended by that?
Del
June 23rd, 2010
9:54 pm
josef,
I know who that creator is and I’ll pray that you’ll discover too, but only while you’re enjoying a long and abundant life.
Alvin Greene for Senate in SC
June 23rd, 2010
9:56 pm
California voters are going to decide about legalizing marijuana in the state.
This is a clear violation of federal law.
What’s the plan ?…………..
Smoke more and the oil leak will get fixed by some other dude?
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
9:56 pm
@@
This is an issue I had thought about because of Unmentionable’s profession and just how often when in contact with his coworkers just how often they come from abroad, and particularly Africa and the Caribbean…
Alvin Greene for Senate in SC
June 23rd, 2010
9:58 pm
Arizona ????
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
9:58 pm
Back in a bit…Betty White time!
Del..
Not to worry, the Cr-ator and I are on a first name basis!
@@
June 23rd, 2010
9:59 pm
Del:
Obama’s supporters don’t know what true suffering is all about. If their party tells ‘em they’re suffering, they believe it. The party defines it for them. They operate thru the power of suggestion.
G’nite.
RW-(the original)
June 23rd, 2010
9:59 pm
PSA
Hot in Cleveland begins in 60 seconds
Del
June 23rd, 2010
9:59 pm
Taps y’all
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 23rd, 2010
10:03 pm
Nevada allows and encourages gambling and prostituion.
In Nevada you can legally gamble one hour and buy a hooker the next.
FREEDOM !
States make their own rules !
Duhhhhhhh……..
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
10:09 pm
@Dave R.
Your 6:51 indicates the Gen. McKhrystal made disparaging remarks about the President.
Sorry, the Vice President, The Abm. to Afghanistan, Special Middle East envoy and the Pentagon hierachy was included. If you read the UCMJ, he clearly violated what an officer can publically say about other officers and civilian leadership.
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:12 pm
Jackie:
And what’s worse is he even “voted” for “Private” Obama !
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:17 pm
To all military men and women out there fighting in Irag and Afghanistan:
Your country and government betrayed us during the Vietnam debacle. Don’t think for one minute they won’t betray you.
Take pride in your personal honor and take care of yourselves. No one else will.
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:17 pm
Excuse me: “Iraq”
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
10:22 pm
@Scout
Being a military man, you should know the chain of command and unit cohesion is paramount.
It does not matter if Gen. McKhrstal voted for President Obama or not, he violated the terms of the UCMJ. Secondly, the man is a 4-star and West Point graduate, therefore, he is aware of the terms and conditions by which ALL members of the military are required to operate.
Curious as to why you think voting for someone allows you special priviledge?
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
10:24 pm
@Scout
You are lucky that you are not on active duty as your comments could come under scrutiny of the UCMJ. I would bet your First Sergeant would chew your hip, lighten up your arm and give you plenty of KP duty.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 23rd, 2010
10:29 pm
Arizona is a great place to visit.
BTW- The new Afghan surge is coming.
Does America want to win or not.
Taliban and Al Qaeda are the enemy correct?
Uhhhhhhhh
Please ask Lady Gaga what she thinks before any decisions are made……
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:30 pm
Jackie:
Please read “An American Amnesia (How the U.S. Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia)” by Bruce Herschensohn (which I just this afternoon finished), go to the Vietnam Wall (before dawn by yourself as I have) and then we’ll debate my remarks.
And since I have been a civilian these past 40+ years I have the right to stand proudly by them !
AmVet
June 23rd, 2010
10:31 pm
Jackie,
Some of these puffed up patriots not only voted for the Saxby the Shameful, they probably kept their otherwise large facial openings closed when Blood & Guts said the reprehensible things he did about a great American, Max Cleland. It is to me forever telling that the only two Republicans who publicly repudiated that slimeball were John McCain and Chuck Hagel.
Now they cheer on a man who clearly should have known better to say the stupid things he did. Even if it was the alcohol talking. And ONLY because they loathe the CiC…
Dave R.
June 23rd, 2010
10:31 pm
No, Jackie, you are incorrect. Again. First, I stated that McChrystal DIDN’T make any disparaging remarks against Hope & Change, but only one remark directly attributed to him was against Holbrooke.
ALL other remarks were attributed to aides or subordinates.
Now, for me, making the remark about Holbrooke doesn’t even come close to violating the UCMJ, as ambassadors are not in the chain of command, and especially if it was true.
They could have tried to fire him, and had a real war on their hands they could never win (because McChrystal actually knows how to fight), of they could accept his resignation. It was the best solution to this, and as Dennis Miller pointed out tonight, McChrystal will never have to buy a beer or a round of golf for himself the rest of his life.
I’d buy him one right now if I could.
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:33 pm
Dave R.:
Not me ! He voted for Obama.
Dave R.
June 23rd, 2010
10:35 pm
AmVet. Your comments show you don’t even know what McChrystal actually said.
One remark directly attributed to him.
One.
Not “things he said”.
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
10:35 pm
RW
“Who put a quarter in that one?”
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:39 pm
Hummmmm …………………
Headline: “Blago calls Obama ‘hen-pecked’ by Michelle”
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:40 pm
Hummmmm …………. again
Headline: “Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.”
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
10:41 pm
Hillbilly
If you’re still about. There are those that just will never get it. It’s what I call the deracinated. The concept of direct and lineal connection with that which went before is simply not there and it is fruitless to appeal to it. It is, in my opinion, what lies at the heart of so much of our problems in dealing with foreign cultures where rootedness is a reality of cultural weltanschauung. Unmentionable made the comment during Bosnia-Kossovo in relation to President Clinton’s foreign policy “the son of Appomattox understands the Plain of Crows…”
RW-(the original)
June 23rd, 2010
10:44 pm
josef,
They really seemed to gel as a cast tonight. Elka has a “lab” too! Who saw that coming?
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
10:49 pm
josef:
Guess where I went to elementary school?
Hint: I killed a lot of Yankees coming up over the ridge ever recess !
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
10:49 pm
RW
Last week
“It smells like pot in here.”
“Are you a cop?”
“No.”
“Then what’s it to you?”
It really does show promise. I like that they’re giving “equal time” all the way around…that’s the makings of a good ensemble cast show…
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 23rd, 2010
10:50 pm
Glenn Beck is a weirdo. His “Crime Inc” story deserves to be investigated.
google.com slash crime inc
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
11:01 pm
Scout–
Where?
It’s interesting. When I was living in Jackson, I knew that two of my great grandfathers were in the Siege there. When I moved away from home, my first apartment was, for lack of a better word, haunted. There was always just the strangest feeling. Years later when I was digging around, I found out that it was right on the battle lines and that one of the great-grandfathers had been wounded there. Perhaps, even, on the very spot…the same two were in the Battle of Peachtree Creek and, some days when I am out strolling about the neighborhood, from out of nowhere there comes again that “feeling.”
It’s similar to what I feel when I’m in New Orleans…a feeling of connectedness to the very cobblestones…to look at a building and know that, so many generations ago, that which made me walked these streets, looked out of that balcony there…
SPQR(laissez Faire)
June 23rd, 2010
11:10 pm
I hope EVERYONE that works at “center for science in the public interest”, die in amusing accidents, like hit by a meteor, killed by a tranny prostitute over a matter of $20, building collapse, stepping on the 3rd rail of a subway while trying to knock a happy meal out of a kids hand..after wasting their lives worrying and trying to force people to eat and dink only “approved foods” thru socialist anti capitalist thuggery like their idol, the big eared b@stard.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 23rd, 2010
11:11 pm
Jay – Dude…. Where r u?
50 more minutes to Day 66 for The Oil Spill.
Afghanistan? — Our troops are about to attack….? General swap complete.
Should we wait for Cynthia Tucker to issue the order?
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
11:14 pm
@Scout
Here is the article from Rolling Stone. You only have to read the first two pages to see where the General violated article 88 of the UCMJ.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236
SPQR(laissez Faire)
June 23rd, 2010
11:16 pm
Cynthia Tucker is busy crafting her article on how Institutional Racism is rampant in the physics community, because black holes sounds so much like “black ho’s” that it simply can’t be coincidence.
Hillbilly Deluxe
June 23rd, 2010
11:16 pm
Josef
I agree that some folks will never get it. When I walk in my yard, I’m literally the 4th generation to walk on the same ground. That’s something you either understand or you don’t.
I think rootlessness plays a part but that’s not all of it. If I moved to Mississippi, or New York, or Alaska or wherever, I would figure it was up to me to do the fitting in, not the people who already lived there. Some people don’t get that either.
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
11:23 pm
@Scout
You were part of the Vietnam experience, therefore, you saw for yourself what was going on in the war. Do you really believe the Congress forced the withdrawl of American troops from SE Asia?
@AmVet
Capt Cleland was a member of the 1st Cav Division. He dropped a “frag” when he was exiting from the Huey. Instead of killing others and possibly bring down the helicopter, he fell on the granade himself.
For Sen. Chambliss to call this man “unpatriotic” and morphed his picture to that of Osama Bin Laden is truly a sad commentary. Sen. Chambliss was able to get a deferment because of “bad knees” while others went to war. In celebrating his victory, he had the Confederate flag on stag and said to his audience, “we have taken our government back from them.”
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
11:24 pm
Jackie:
I don’t doubt it. I don’t feel sorry for him. He voted for Obama too !
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
11:26 pm
josef:
Missionary Ridge Elementary School in Chattanooga. There were Confederate canons emplaced in the front school yard pointing toward the city. I was usually the “loader” with a big stick to push the canonball down! We killed a lot of Yankees coming up over that ridge ……….. just not enough of them ……………
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
11:30 pm
Hillbilly
And that is the point, the insistence that the natives change to be like the immigrant. Woodrow Wilson once said that “the South is the only place where nothing has to be explained to me.” Our detractor cannot grasp that “those people” he feels so superior to are “my” people and that I am connected with them in a fashion that transcends race, creed or color and that an attack on them is an attack on me.
And, I believe, that is why there exists such an antipathy toward Southerners, it is a jealousy of that sense of belonging.
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
11:33 pm
Jackie
By “Confederate flag” do you mean the Cross of St. Andrew of the battlefield, or do you mean the flag of the slavocracy of the Richmond regime currently flying over Georgia?
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
11:33 pm
@Dave R.
Please read the Rolling Stone article and you will see for yourself, Gen. McChrystal disparaged the Vice President, the Pentagon leadership, the Ambassador to Afghanistan – himself a retired 3-star, Richard Holbrook and others in the civilian chain-of-command.
Afraid you are wrong.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
11:34 pm
@josef nix
The Cross of St. Andrew.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 23rd, 2010
11:37 pm
Does information threaten the USA?
Jackie
June 23rd, 2010
11:39 pm
@josef nix
Research indicates that flag that was on stage with Sen. Chambliss was the Confederate Battle flag.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dieteman/dieteman44.html
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
11:40 pm
Jackie
The Cross of St Andrew is NOT the Confederate flag…it is the flag under which, for better or worse, right or wrong, the most amazing conglomeration of ethnic and social heritages fought…just because it has been usurped by the hate mongers of both factions as their “symbol” does not diminish that historical reality…
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
11:42 pm
Jackie:
All American combat troops had been gone for three years (1972-75) when the North Vietnamese in total violation of the Paris Peace Accords attacked out of the Central Highlands and the DMZ.
The U.S. had promised the South Vietnamese in writing we would use our air power to stop that if it ever happened. We didn’t per the U.S. Congress.
The book is a great read. I highly recommend it. “An American Amnesia” !
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
11:46 pm
josef:
Your wasting your time. They just can’t seem to understand history.
Maybe I should remind them the U.S. flag flew on the slave ships, over the Japanese American internment camps in WWII and was the last thing a lot of American Indians saw just before the U.S. Cavalry put a bullet between their eyes. The next thing you know, Mexican and Islamic immigrants will say “Old Glory” offends them.
Then what ?
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
11:48 pm
Jackie
“Research” indicates? I’d say a simple check of a standard reference would make it rather obvious…
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
11:48 pm
P.S. to Jackie:
When I was there, my buddy Marines and I always talked about why we couldn’t invade North Vietnam since they were invading the South? That’s what we wanted to do !
josef nix
June 23rd, 2010
11:52 pm
Scout
Back during the flag flap somebody made the assumption that Unmentionable’s “Indian sensitivities” must be offended by the Cross of St Andrew. His comment, “it was a lot more loyal to me and my kind than the Stars and Stripes…” It got a “hunh?” in response. Does he want it removed? Of course not, he’s from a career military family, but as he says, if you want me to look at a flag from a limited perspective, what do you think I feel….
Scout
June 24th, 2010
12:02 am
josef:
Exactly.
That’s why the whole “battle flag” thing was so silly. They exchanged it for the “political flag” of the Confederacy (the Stars & Bars) and most of them are too ignorant of history to know it.
In many ways, the joke is on them !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
Scout
June 24th, 2010
12:08 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXv1J9ewjY&playnext_from=TL&videos=9EfcYUjyfqw&feature=rec-LGOUT-exp_r2-2r-5-HM
josef nix
June 24th, 2010
12:17 am
Scout…
True. And thanks for the 12:08 on which note of good cheer I shall bid all a g’night…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
June 24th, 2010
4:08 am
Aahh, so much of our money to scheme, so little time-
A common scam had multiple taxpayers using the sale of a single home, with each claiming the credit. One home was used by 67 tax filers, the report said. In other cases, taxpayers got the credit for sales that happened before the tax break started.
The Internal Revenue Service says it is taking steps to get the money back.-Urinal
It’s almost as though obozo is giving your future away, ain’t it?
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
June 24th, 2010
4:48 am
Senate Democrats struggled Wednesday to revive a bill extending jobless benefits and a host of other spending and tax measures as they searched for ways to reduce the measure’s deficit impact and attract critical GOP support. Democrats weighed $8 billion in cuts in a state aid package dearly sought by the nation’s governors as they sought to pare back the cost of the bill to win over moderate Republicans.-Urinal
50 billion in new spending with 8 billion in “cuts” that you know they will never make.
It’s almost as though they are trying to give your future away, ain’t it?
Saul Good
June 24th, 2010
5:04 am
Hillbilly: “But Saul, two or three weeks back you referred to the area where you live as “up here in no man’s land”. You don’t recon the locals would be offended by that?”
They would be just as offended as when I lived for a while near Woodstock, NY in the Catskill Mountains in “no man’s land”…. why would anyone be offended by that in ANY place rural anywhere?
Saul Good
June 24th, 2010
5:13 am
“Dennis Miller pointed out tonight, McChrystal will never have to buy a beer or a round of golf for himself the rest of his life.”
He also couldn’t win a war over in Afghanistan in the manner in which he choose to fight it. He could have spent the “rest of his life” doing things as he was…and he would have still lost…lost more lives, lost more of our tax dollars,….
I Belong
June 24th, 2010
6:36 am
If we’re all supposed to be fitting in with those that first populated any particular place, should we all be swinging from trees, wearing fig leaves, owning some slaves, growing maize… and what about when all the older generation dies off. How do we fit in then. And what if someone comes along and buys up most of a town or county. Does the majority owner now make the rules regarding fitting in. What if a 10th-generation Georgian moved to the next town over. Does he have to fit in. Is he now first generation.
jt
June 24th, 2010
6:49 am
A direct quote from General McChrystal a few monthes ago—————-
“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,” said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who became the senior American and NATO commander in Afghanistan last year. His comments came during a recent videoconference to answer questions from troops in the field about civilian casualties.”
No problem.
Yet he gets into trouble for his people making a few jokes and candid remarks about the regime.
Wrong on so many levels.
jt
June 24th, 2010
6:51 am
Actually, it is a cultural sickness.
jt
June 24th, 2010
6:54 am
“This is a change in personnel,” Obama said, “but it is not a change in policy.”
Normal
June 24th, 2010
7:12 am
Good morning, all y’all…
http://punditkitchen.com/2010/06/24/political-pictures-breaking-news-john-mccain-stays-up-past-pm/
—————————–
Scout
June 23rd, 2010
9:19 pm
Why was the Vice President standing there getting tube time? He’s not in the chain of command.
…President Obama’s way of preventing assassination attempts…
Saul Good
June 24th, 2010
7:20 am
I belong… actually, I think it comes down to being born north or south of the Mason-Dixon Line… in that case, based upon this logic and train of thought… Lil’ Jose Sanchez who is born to his illegal immigrant parents in Forsyth County, GA is just as Southern as someone born there with 10 generations of ancestors who still reside on the land given to them by our government that was taken away and stolen from the Cherokees.
Since one of my Grandmothers was born in Baltimore… I guess that makes me a “quarter” Southerner”….how ya like dem apples?
Normal
June 24th, 2010
7:27 am
I believe “being Southern” is more attitude than area.
Bob
June 24th, 2010
7:32 am
So Obo is putting a guy that “betrayed us” in charge ?
stands for decibels
June 24th, 2010
7:36 am
So Obo is putting a guy that “betrayed us” in charge ?
I love the smell of poutrage in the morning.
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
7:37 am
Normal – 7:27 – it reminds me of the old “living in the south doesn’t make you a southernor anymore than my cat lying in the oven would make it a biscuit”
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
7:40 am
pssst … db … do you think they realize that Petreus never went away, he only went to centcomm? it’s like our RvW discussion yesterday – they seem to think these things spring out of the ether.
stands for decibels
June 24th, 2010
7:50 am
do you think they realize that Petreus never went away, he only went to centcomm?
It’s not even that, so much, it’s the “oh yeah, I remember now, the Dems lined up to call him ‘BETRAY US’ because they soooo hate the troops” meme that, what is it now, four, five numbskulls have seen fit to dump in here?
Normal
June 24th, 2010
7:51 am
USinUK,
Good news for my sister. Her scan came up negative so the cancer hasn’t
spread! She went through her first chemo with flying colors, so we are very hopeful.
stands for decibels
June 24th, 2010
7:52 am
I think it comes down to being born north or south of the Mason-Dixon Line…
and east of the Mississippi.
stands for decibels
June 24th, 2010
7:55 am
the cancer hasn’t spread!
Glad to hear it, Normal.
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
7:56 am
Normal – 7:51 – HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY!!! fantastic news – tell her WELL DONE!! (and, see??? you can’t go by what the techs do in the exam room – they really aren’t allowed to tell you anything)
oh, that is such fantatic news – I’m so very happy for her and you and the whole dang clan.
RW-(the original)
June 24th, 2010
7:57 am
Any word in London about whether Isner and Mahut realize this tournament only lasts two weeks?
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
7:58 am
you know what will make her feel good?? Stevie Wonder is playing at Glastonbury this weekend on Sunday – see if you can pick it up on the BBC website – or look for it on YouTube …
as long as he doesn’t play that “I just called to say I love you” crapola, it’ll be a good show
(yes, we have an embarassment of riches to choose from this weekend … England v. Germany on Sunday … Glasto starting tonight and going all weekend … Wimbledon … SA-WEET!!!)
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
8:00 am
hey … did someone say Glastonbury?
why, yes, I believe I did …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10356174.stm
Union
June 24th, 2010
8:01 am
morning.. just a few comments..
“McChrystal ousted, replaced by Petraeus”
he turned in his resignation.. that makes him ousted?
“President Obama dismissed Gen. McChrystal today”.
again.. its only words.. while true in message.. wouldnt accuracy in reporting be.. obama accepts resignation?
“I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division,” Obama said, noting the strict code of conduct required of our military. “The strength and greatness of our military is rooted in the fact that this code applies equally to newly enlisted privates and to general officer who command them.” He stressed the importance of the chain of command “and respect for civilian control over that chain of command.”
he better get ready to fire a good chunk of the military.. most of the people i know that are still in think he is an f’ing moron.. that should qualify as “division”
stands for decibels
June 24th, 2010
8:03 am
Any word in London about whether Isner and Mahut realize this tournament only lasts two weeks?
holy cow. I’d seen a line on the ESPN bottom-line thingie, I had no idea…
http://www.freep.com/article/20100624/SPORTS18/6240390/John-Isner-Nicolas-Mahut-match-by-the-numbers
“7-hour fifth set”??
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
8:05 am
Union – “he turned in his resignation”
he “was resigned”, as the saying goes …
“McChrystal, on the morning of his firing, made it apparent that he still didn’t understand the gravity of his offense. Arriving at the Pentagon, he was asked by NBC News whether he had offered his resignation. “Come on, you know better than that. No!” he replied. ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/23/AR2010062304961.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
8:08 am
dB – http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/8757370.stm
John McEnroe thinks they should have the match resume on center court in front of the queen.
stands for decibels
June 24th, 2010
8:08 am
most of the people i know that are still in think he is an f’ing moron..
Hey, guess what? Most of the military people I know think GWB is an f’in moron!
Funny how that whole “circle of acquaintances” thingie works, huh?
Normal
June 24th, 2010
8:09 am
Do you think McCrystal is channeling Patton?
TaxPayer
June 24th, 2010
8:11 am
most of the people i know that are still in think he is an f’ing moron.. that should qualify as “division”
Yet they remain. It must be for the money rather than for their country, eh.
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
8:11 am
Taxpayer – it’s for the travel plan …
Union
June 24th, 2010
8:16 am
ahh. you guys and (gals) are always right about everything.. what the heck would i know after 12 years.. and yes taxpayer.. we do it for our country and after a time for our friends..
USinUK
June 24th, 2010
8:17 am
crateful of fresh squirrel upstairs …
TaxPayer
June 24th, 2010
8:22 am
Twelve years old! Kinda young to be bloggin’.
Union
June 24th, 2010
8:31 am
TaxPayer
June 24th, 2010
8:22 am
Twelve years old! Kinda young to be bloggin’.
and yet..so far more intelligent than you..
Art
June 24th, 2010
7:08 pm
Dawg Dad, you obviously never served in the military or if you did, you kept out of trouble and never had to deal with the UCMJ but… Trust me… I was a legal officer and a Commanding Officer and what General McChystal said and did was definitely insubordination. He had to go on that principle alone despite the fact that PRESBO isn’t up to the task.
Supra Cuban
July 15th, 2010
10:25 pm
Good job.No matter where we are, we must study all the way.hrough reading more good articles to improve our quality of life.