[Sxedlawb]

CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/...ex.html?hpt=T1
President Barack Obama was "angry" after reading Gen. Stanley McChrystal's remarks about colleagues in a Rolling Stone article, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. McChrystal -- the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan -- has been recalled to Washington to explain his actions to the president. He is expected to meet with Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Gibbs said. Gibbs refused to speculate about McChrystal's fate, but told reporters "all options are on the table."

McChrystal is prepared to resign if the president has lost confidence in him, a national security official told CNN. But most of the Pentagon brass hopes he will be upbraided by the commander-in-chief but sent back to continue the mission.

Obama, questioned about McChrystal before a Cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon, said he had not made a decision.

"I think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed poor judgment, but I also want to make sure that I talk to him directly before I make that final decision," he said.

[opelayday]

The President should relieve him of command, promptly. But my best guess is he won't.

[BartRonalds]

I hope he does, Paul. The general screwed up royally. He's a commissioned officer. You just don't do what he did and expect to retain your command.

[Aceroassert]

And not his first time criticizing his C-i-C.

I think hell hath just frozen over........Paul, DES, and I are all on the same side of a question!

[Heclailia]

Pres. Obama relieved him of command. CNN is confirming it. Good.

[WaydayNef]

Its WAY past time for this General to resign, and for us to bring our brave folks home. This whole mess so much resembles Vietnam's dead end, it is horrifying.

There is NO way to win over there, in any substantive sense.

Our staying only allows our military to be continally butchered. ENOUGH.

Let that country decide what Path they want to take. WHO are we to tell them?

Pres. Obama relieved him of command. CNN is confirming it. Good.

[Blolover11]

I hope he does, Paul. The general screwed up royally. He's a commissioned officer. You just don't do what he did and expect to retain your command.

You're right a commisioned officer always has the right to resign his commission if he doesn't agree with the Orders or direction he is being given. Then he can blather on all he wants.

This is a good thing, I like General Petraeus better any way. And I think he would resign if he believed the President was directing him to take actions or strategy that he strongly disagreed with.