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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (202569)	5/15/2009 11:23:11 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Looks to me like McSame indeed won the election. === Published on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 by The Progressive McChrystal Wrong Man for the Job by Matthew Rothschild Obama has just made a terrible choice in his new commander for Afghanistan. By choosing Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Obama shows how indifferent he is to the serious allegations that have swirled around McChrystal, a darling of the Bush-Cheney regime. It was McChrystal, after all, who approved a medal for Pat Tillman, the former NFL star, saying he fell under "devastating enemy fire." But just a day later, McChrystal warned the White House that it might have been friendly fire, not enemy fire. And, according to Seymour Hersh, McChrystal was the guy who was running Cheney's assassination squads. From 2003-2008, McChrystal headed the Joint Special Operations Command, which Hersh called "an executive assassination wing" that reported directly to Cheney's office. What's more, Esquire has reported that McChrystal authorized torture at a secret camp, where two detainees died under interrogation, and expressly prohibited the Red Cross from entering the camp, which would be a double violation of the Geneva Conventions. McChrystal's promotion mocks Obama's rhetoric about making a clean break with the torture regime of Bush and Cheney. The last we thing we need is a gonzo general in charge of Afghanistan. © 2009 The Progressive