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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
You apparently have no clue how the military operates. Try reading the rulebook all military personnel, and especially officers, have to live by. McChrystal could have been a lot more than fired. According to the law he was let off lightly, being allowed to resign.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/888
Or perhaps his girlfriend was sending threatening emails to another friend of his, and it was about to blow up into a major scandal, with the Director of the CIA right in the middle. Resigning may have saved his future.
First, he was not dismissed except from his post, pending investigation. Second, it wasn't because he was gambling, it was because he was allegedly using $1500 in counterfeit chips. If found guilty expect him to go to jail, or at the least to be drummed out of the Navy. If found not guilty expect him to be reinstated with an apology.
All it takes is the tiniest bit of research. |
There you go with the condescending tone, I am aware of the official explanations and them using the rules, which are honestly absolute bs.Obama should have been a man about it, took it as hey, the guy who actually knows about military operations is saying our plans are junk but instead, he just booted him out.McCrystal was purged out because obama did not like him, he used the "rules" as an excuse.
Resigning may have saved Petraeus's future but to me, it sounds like he was purged out, most likely for disagreeing with obama and company.There is a very obvious pattern with this admin.
I had read it was for gambling.Hmm well if that is actually true, his mistake.However, the timing just seems to coincidental.Perhaps the Admiral was not a "team" player and they used this to try and purge him.I mean, he is out of his post.Wonder what yes man they are replacing him with.
Just something obviously is going on for them to be throwing out high ranking military people left and right like this.They are smart enough to at least try to give the appearance of a "legitimate" reason. I could be wrong but that is the unfortunate part, this admin has been so dishonest from day 1, it is difficult to ever trust them on anything.I want to sometimes, I don't want to believe some things that are pretty obvious but can not turn away from the truth.