General McChrystal is a war criminal.

Good links PSSmith, ands here ‘s another counterpunch article:
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs09222009.html

Ron Jacobs, 9/23/09

“...There is a sentence in the report that is laughably ironic and represents the fantastical foundation on which the report is built.  That sentence reads: “We must never confuse the situation as it stands with the one we desire..”  Yet, this is exactly what the paper does.  Its primary impetus is one that targets the Afghan population’s perception of the foreign military presence in their land.  It defines the US and NATO occupation of Afghanistan as different from the previous Soviet occupation, as if the 2001 invasion and the subsequent eight years of Washington’s war had not killed thousands of Afghans, thereby stoking the resentment of the local population and consequently increase support for the resistance. ....

...In short, the strategy outlined in the McChrystal paper is just another remake of standard counterinsurgency strategies.  Despite its newspeak regarding the need to change strategies and its occasionally dire tone in terms of the threat to Washington’s success in the country, its true conclusion is that in order for Washington to win its war is by increasing troops, stepping up covert and black ops, and changing the perception of the war on the home front while trying to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.”

The only way out of this quadmire, per usual, is a draft—but this time, no exclusions, no deferrements, and the sons and daughters of DC political elites go first.

If “young people” are so crazy about Obama lets see how much they like him after they get a draft card in the mail with no college deferrments.

It is indeed a shame that that is what it takes to get people to give a damn. But it seems to hold true. Look at how resistance to Vietnam droppped off after the draft was cancelled.

Only one of McChrystla’s war crimes:

http://socialistworker.org/2009/05/19/commander-of-cover-up

“... McChrystal, whose background is in the nefarious and shadowy world of “black ops,” is that his actions in the Tillman cover-up feel emblematic instead of exceptional….

When an anonymous Army interrogator “at great personal risk” blew the whistle to Esquire in August 2006 on an extensive torture enterprise at Camp Nama, he described the then-unknown McChrystal as being an overseer who knew the ugly truth. Torture at Camp Nama included using ice water to induce hypothermia. It was not a rogue operation unless we consider generals like McChrystal “rogues.” As Esquire reported:

Once, somebody brought it up with the colonel. “Will [the Red Cross] ever be allowed in here?” And he said absolutely not. He had this directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon that there’s no way that the Red Cross could get in—they won’t have access, and they never will. This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating, even Army investigators. ....

...Later in the piece, when asked where the colonel was getting his orders from, the interrogator said, “I believe it was a two-star general. I believe his name was Gen. McChrystal. I saw him there a couple of times.”

Dave Zirin

SENSE

The Huge Hole in Gen. McChrystal’s Afghan Counterinsurgency Strategy - A Pathway to Disaster - by
Franklin C. Spinney. -

http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney09222009.html

AND SENSE-ABILITY

“Chuck” Spinney is one of those US characters who suddenly spring from obscurity onto the national stage
and have a huge effect; usually only after decades of unseen grinding hard work. -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_C._Spinney

McCHRYSTAL - THE US’S FAVOURITE THROAT CUTTER

McChrystal’s plan was leaked to ‘Bob’ Woodward of the Washington Post. Once an establishment shill, and
still an establishment shill.

Woodward - who was in the Office of Naval Intelligence—which shared a building with Lee Harvey Oswald
in New Orleans in the summer of 1963—who has never said what he was doing in California during his
time stationed there - Operation Chaos against the ‘60s protesters?

Woodward the man given a hasty training in journalism and then handed the scoop of a lifetime on a plate -
- the Watergate Break-In story—what a coincidence that a man from ONI just happened to be there to
take the ball and score the touchdown. FYI - in intelligence there are _no_ coincidences.

- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwoodward.htm

And now Woodward has the inside scoop from the US’s favorite throat-cutter, McChrystal, whose fellow
Neocon alumni of special forces - Richard Armitage - was known to his ‘friends’ as ‘Butcher’ because of
treatment of the (so-called) enemy in another make-believe war for the protection of democracy, freedom
and the American-way. Though probably not for Mom and apple-pie. Unless it be the ‘Mom’ from Psycho - 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKarmitage.htm

Psycho Mom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG3-GlvKPcg

Don’t believe a word of what Woodward now says; except to see what the faction of the elite feeding
information to him want known. And to follow John Pilger’s favourite quote from British muckraking reporter
Claude Cockburn “Never believe anything, until the official denial.”

CONSPIRACY THEORY
The fact that, in the US, discussing theories about conspiracies—aka politics as usual—has been
associated with ‘Conspiracy Theories’—the tinfoil-hat brigade—is perhaps the greatest, and wittiest,
expression of Bernays’s manipulation of reality - aka the US Reality Distortion Field - tm Steve Jobs - Apple
Marketing genius but truth? HA!

Robin Ramsay of UK Lobster magazine, now online, has been a reporter of (real-life) conspiracies for over
thirty years.  He wrote a very useful little book on the difference between theories about conspiracies and
conspiracy theories.  An article on the difference, in no way as good as the book.
http://www.serendipity.li/eden/laconspi.html

Book - Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/4hahen

http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/robin-ramsay.htm

Woodward - links - Namebase - http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?
Na=woodward,+robert+upshur