Quick re-cap on who has been fired by Bazza and his SecDef:-
Two months after becoming SecDef, Robert Gates fired his first general: the guy in charge of Walter Reed and its moldy, cockroach-infested facilities for housing the wounded.
Then Gates fired the secretary of the Army and forced out the Army’s surgeon general.
Since then, a whole slew of top officers and senior civilians have been shown the door.
Air Force Chief of Staff General Mike “Buzz†Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne were booted, after nuclear weapons mishaps and disagreements over spending priorities.
Central Command chief Admiral William “Fox†Fallon resigned after an overly-chatty, borderline-insubordinate magazine article.
Gates axed Joint Strike Fighter program manager Major General David Heinz after the stealth jet’s costs went sky high.
Vice Admiral John “Boomer†Stufflebeem was fired for providing misleading testimony to Defense Department investigators.
Last year, the Defense Secretary relieved the top battlefield commander in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, over the war’s slow progress.
IMHO McChrystal could see that the wheels were coming off his Big Boys Afghan Adventure and has engineered his own sacking. He is far too intelligent not to have realised that his interview with Rolling Stone wouldn't have earned him a quick Axminster Shuffle [sans coffee and cookies]
Bazza has responded brilliantly by replacing him with Petraeus [a demotion for King David], who is not only a thorn in Bazza's side but a potential Republican Presidential candidate. If King David does well in Afghanistan then Bazza gets the credit. If he does badly then he fcuks up his run for POTUS.
The icing on the cake is that Bazza can't have a direct pop at the Red Sea Pedestrians because Congress is controlled by AIPAC. By putting Petraeus in the limelight he has effectively given a resounding fcuk right off to Nutty Yahoo. Remember it was Petraeus who said that Israel was a strategic liability to the USA.
What's not to like with this turn of events??
I'd go and have a beer on the beach but BP are already there!!!
RM :thumbleft: