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To: tejek who wrote (78626)	6/22/2010 1:20:33 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

McCrystal is "a Cheneyite" who helped talk Obama into the terribly flawed idea that a surge could work in Afghanistan....Time to fire McCrystal and bring in someone who can get us out of that quagmire -- the U.S. is wasting way too much blood and treasure over in that part of the world...And Obama is wasting too much political capital on war games -- accelerate the withdrawal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan...Spend precious political capital on something much more important like energy reform...Let's do more nation building AT HOME...these ongoing wars make me sick to my stomach.

To: tejek who wrote (78626)	6/24/2010 12:17:47 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

It seems it was more than a few hours in a bar or on a bus. UPDATE: NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel spoke with Hastings, who said that the unprecedented access—nearly a month with the general —was not how the military or Rolling Stone had imagined it. Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano trapped the reporter in Paris with McChrystal and his staff. Engel’s comments: “I just hung up the phone with Michael Hastings who wrote the article for Rolling Stone and—he said it was something of an accident—this article was never meant to be like this. What happened was, Michael Hastings presented this idea to the military, to McChrystal’s military advisors, media advisors, saying ‘I want to do this profile’ ... they agreed, and he was supposed to have two days with him in Paris and then followed up another visit in Afghanistan.” It appears that McChrystal and his aides may have let their guard down after they got used to having Hastings around. vanityfair.com Read More vanityfair.com Rolling Stone sent a reporter to cover the general's speech in Paris and then the volcano ash problem happened........the reporter ending up taking a bus with the general and his staff to Berlin. That's when he got a lot of the stuff for his article.