WASHINGTON (SR) - According to sources in the White House, President Obama was "absolutely livid" with General Stanley McChrystal's speech given in London last week.
In his speech the general, who heads the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan as well as the 100,000 NATO forces, flatly rejected Vice President Biden's proposal to switch to a strategy more reliant on drone missile strikes and special forces operations using "killer clowns," calling the idea "unbelievably retarded," and referring to Biden as "a smirking pinhead who moves his lips when he reads."
McChrystal's comments are said to have infuriated President Obama, who has so far ignored the General's desperate pleas for additional troops in Afghanistan. When told of McChrystal's remarks, Obama reportedly kicked the First Dog and loudly raved about his dislike for the military in general, and McChrystal specifically, calling them "baby killers" and "dim-witted savages."
The next day Gen. McChrystal was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the President schooled him on advanced military tactics and strategic planning.
My comments: Just who does this general think he is, completely discounting this awesome plan from one of our country's most brilliant military minds, Joe Biden?
I don't know about you, but the thought of Slow Joe having even the slightest input into strategic planning makes me damned glad I'm not in the military. Let's have a margarita and try not to think about it!
President Obama schools Gen. McChrystal on military strategy
