Cantor: McChrystal must be "frustrated" with Obama

[babylonsister]

Here we go; expect this to get louder and louder from more and more rethugs. x(

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/cantor_mcchrystal_must_be_frus.html

Cantor: McChrystal must be "frustrated" with Obama


The Republican response to the Rolling Stone article is fascinating: The House GOP leadership is suggesting it reveals that Stanley McChrystal is "frustrated" with President Obama over the war, perhaps because he isn't giving the troops "what they need."

Eric Cantor's office emails over this:

Obviously a General and his top brass don't make statements like these without being frustrated, so I hope that the President's meeting with General McChrystal will include a frank discussion about what is happening on the ground, and whether the resources and the plan are there to defeat terrorists and accomplish our mission in Afghanistan. Without question, the article in Rolling Stone raises a lot of concerns, but our top priority must be to ensure that our forces in Afghanistan have what they need in order to successfully execute their mission and win the war there.

At the moment, Democrats in Congress are standing in the way of a clean bill to fund our troops and provide the resources needed because they want to lard it up with domestic spending. We need to get our troops these funds, and should do so without any pork or unrelated domestic spending items thrown in.

This is in keeping with previous GOP attempts to subtly drive a wedge between Obama and McChrystal, at the expense (it goes without saying) of Obama. When Obama decided to send more troops to Afghanistan, multiple Republicans cast it as a decision by McChrystal and the commanders, suggesting that Obama was merely following their lead.

Now the GOP response to the Rolling Stone article isn't to worry whether it constitutes insubordination towards the Commander in Chief, but to suggest that the commanders may have good reason to be "frustrated" with Obama and Dems for some reason.

[Jennicut]

1. LOL. Obama let McChrystal have his COIN strategy but because it is not working out,

he badmouths Obama, the VP and everyone else in the administration. And he is "frustrated". Poor little McChrystal. Insubordination is not frustration, it is being an asshole with disrespect for the CIC.

[AtomicKitten]

2. This needs to be nipped in the bud right quick and in a hurry.

McChrystal has already been summoned to the White House when he did the cable TV tour advocating more troop commitment during O's review of Afghanistan strategy. I consider that his first warning. This interview with Rolling Stone should buy him a ticket to retirement.

K&R

[BridgeTheGap]

3. Not really a surprise. They always want it both ways. It's disheartening that more people don't

see through this crap!

[DJ13]

4. Well tough shit

You take orders, or you get out.

Thre military isnt a Democracy.

[humbled_opinion]

5. That is the recent meme...

Obama is not a Leader he is a manager a community organizer, look at the economy, look at the Health Care, look at the wars, look at the Oil spill.... We told you so...

[bigdarryl]

6. If he's that frustrated he should put in his RETIREMENT papers instead of criticizing

[Bitwit1234]

7. How many generals did Bush fire before he found one that

did exactly what he told him to do....I have looked and looked on Bing and Google and nary a word from any of the republicans supporting these generals. Of course we must not forget...Bush was a republican and we know that when a republican does something THEY ARE ALWAYS 100% CORRECT.

[msongs]

8. when words and actions don't jibe, actions are the truth nt

[Arkana]

9. Even if this were true, Cantor is basically excusing insubordination.

Obama is fucking Commander-in-Chief of all US armed forces, whether Pinhead Cantor likes it or not, and the generals had better learn to live with that.

[PlanetBev]

10. Cantor's such a slimy maggot

Always trying to find the soft spots on Obama, so he can burrow in.

[Phx_Dem]

11. Cantor and Karazai appear to be his only supporters. Even

McCain, Lieberman, Graham rebuked McChrystal. Crazy Glenn Beck said he should be fired.

So Canton is hanging out there with Hamid Karzai! LOL

Sweet.