Obama Rewards General McChrystal's Resignation With a Four-Star Retirement

When General McChrystal and some of his aids had their off-the-record conversations betrayed by a Rolling Stone reporter, someone had to take the fall. After all, uncomplimentary things were said and Obama's enormous ego was bruised. General McChrystal manned-up and resigned, but there isn't any reason he shouldn't receive a reward. How does an inflation adjusted $149,700 per year before taxes for life sound? This might keep General McChrystal, who voted for Obama, off FOX News.

WaPo reported:

“Gen. Stanley McChrystal will retain his four-star rank when he retires from the military, the White House said Tuesday. The decision means the general will earn about $149,700 per year before taxes in military retirement pay.”

General McChrystal wasn't qualified to retire with four-star rank under military rules.

Army rules state a four-star general must serve three years before they can retain the rank in retirement. But the president can bypass the rule if he chooses to do so.

Can Obama Finally Admit the Surge Worked in Iraq?

Yesterday, President Obama sacked Gen. Stanley McChrystal and replaced him with Gen. David Petraeus. You may remember Gen. Petraeus was led the extremely successful 2007 surge in Iraq that led to the remarkable progress we see there today. He was vilified by President Obama's supporters as 'General Betray Us' in a MoveOn.org ad. The ad claimed Gen. Petraeus was cooking the books about the surges success. This led to a Senate resolution condemning the liberal groups unpatriotic attack on General Petraeus credibility. MoveOn.org has scrubbed their site of of this ad, but you can see screen-shots here. In hindsight, we all know the surge was successful and the ad was a lie. Where was President Obama during these events? He was strangely missing for the vote to condemn the ad even though he had left the campaign trail to be in Washington for votes. It is strange that President Obama has appointed a General who led a surge he opposed and has never admitted worked.



The time has come for President Obama to admit he was wrong. The surge in Iraq was a good strategy that was brilliantly implemented by his new favorite General.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal is Now free to Speak His Mind

General McChrystal has been relieved of his command and replaced by General Petraeus. I can't wait to see Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Hannity. If he was so plain spoken while in command, he will be brutally honest now.

Obama said bluntly that Gen. Stanley McChrystal's scornful remarks about administration officials in interviews for a magazine article represent conduct that "undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system."

He fired the commander after summoning him from Afghanistan for a face to face meeting in the Oval Office and named Petraeus, the Central Command chief who was McChrystal's direct boss, to step in.