McChrystal fires aide

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) – Gen. Stanley McChrystal, America's top commander in Afghanistan has fired a press aide because of the controversial Rolling Stone article, two defense officials tell CNN.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/mcchrystal-fires-aide/?fbid=VP2LgjjHQ1T

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Different take from Reuters:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22125320.htm


Top aide to US general in Afghanistan resigns
22 Jun 2010 14:31:45 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - A senior media aide to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan has resigned after a magazine article portrayed the military commander and his team making critical comments about the Obama administration, U.S. defense officials said on Tuesday.

Duncan Boothby had been a close advisor to McChrystal and frequently traveled with him.

[WI_DEM]

1. So it was the press aide's fault for what McChrystal said?

[wtmusic]

3. A topsy-turvy version of "kill the messenger". nt

[ellenfl]

12. apparently. sorta like abu ghraib. it's always the underlings

who get the hook.

ellen fl

[saigon68]

13. Just another Thug General

The present Occupant needs him to "Discipline the Natives" And kill a few too

[hedgehog]

2. Sounds like a good example for Obama to follow regarding McChrystal!

[Sherman A1]

9. Precisely

Time for the General to retire

[Justitia]

4. Great, now fire McChrystal.

Who is the source of the problem.

[drm604]

5. So is this how McChrystal is going to try to handle this?

Give me a break. I hope we hear a different story after tomorrow's White House meeting.

[stray cat]

6. the aide said alot of it - so he should go

[CLANG]

7. He set the precedent, now the President should adhere to it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. That's showing some responsibility, General.

Riiiight.

[Enrique]

10. is this the same Duncan Bootby?

doesn't seem likely, but how many Duncan Boothby's can there be?

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/domestic-drama/Content?oid=1190026

(...)

It's not the first time in recent years a theater has commandeered domestic space or some analogue thereof. Duncan Boothby, a gifted young actor who performed both at UNC and Manbites Dog Theater during the last decade, convinced a resident on Chapel Hill's Lakeshore Drive to let him produce Athol Fugard's South African drama, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, in a house overlooking Eastwood Lake in the mid-1990s. Shakespeare & Originals staged their memorable Chekhov trilogy, Life, Love, Cows, on and around farm buildings at Pittsboro's Rock Rest Amphitheater. For that matter, another Durham theater group aroused a bit too much interest in their subterranean, basement production last year: The fire marshal closed their show during its initial weekend.

(...)

[ellenfl]

14. apparently so.

"Duncan Boothby, the civilian Pentagon consultant who brokered Gen. Stanley McChrystal's interview with Rolling Stone, has resigned, according to two officials.

Boothby, a one-time stage actor, has served as an image consultant to several of the Pentagon's top generals, including Gen. David Petraeus, now of Central Command, when Petraeus was attempting to sell the Iraq "surge" to the American people."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/consultant-who-brokered-mcchrystals-interview-resigns/58496/

ellen fl

[Blue_Tires]

19. A stage actor turned PR flack?

You can NOT make this up...

[704wipes]

20. oh, and with a name of Duncan Boothby

The old saying used to be never trust a person with two first names,
but I think that should be revised.

[MineralMan]

11. Ah, the arrogance of Generals.

It comes with the rank, it seems. Uff da!

[GodlessBiker]

15. McChrystal's Oliver Hardy moment: This is another fine mess you've gotten me into.

You're fired!

[snagglepuss]

18. Brilliant.

:rofl:

[denverbill]

16. Boothby just struck it rich. He'll now be on every right-wing show in the country.

Old Joe the Plumber, meet the new kid on the block.

[704wipes]

21. yeah but the new kid has a pointy-head name

for sure.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Not the aide's fault. McChrystal had a choice of saying nothing derogatory or simply tell the

reporter "off the record" and have it on tape.

[CanonRay]

22. Glad to see that shit still flows downhill!

At least the laws of physics aren't messed up.

[Drops_not_Dope]

23. The Article - for those who haven't seen it

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. This actually makes it easier for Obama to fire him, since he can hardly

portray himself as the victim when he goes around firing subordinates himself.

The general seems to be a fucking idjit.

[ProudDad]

25. Nothing to see here

This is SOP for the military-industrial complex.

"War is too important to leave up to the politicians." Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Burpelson AFB.

http://www.burpelsonafb.com/

[ProudDad]

26. Love the Lead Paragraph!!!

'How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It's a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hôtel Westminster in Paris. He's in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States. Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany's president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops. McChrystal is in Paris to keep the French, who have lost more than 40 soldiers in Afghanistan, from going all wobbly on him.

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[LaurenG]

27. Right..."kick the dog" General

Take it out on your underlings. Maybe just fire yourself while you're at it.

[DebbieCDC]

28. cut off the limbs, but leave the roots

I doubt Obama's going to yank the McChrytal root out of Afghanistan

[MindPilot]

29. In other news Kim Jong Il orders beheading of soccer coach and goalie.

"They failed to comply with my telepathically transmitted orders."