A bit of old news, I suppose, but we were reminded over the weekend of some details about General Stanley McCrystal, the former head man in Afghanistan who 1) loved his Bud Light Lime so much that he packed some 30 cases of it onto a bus for a road-trip from Paris to Berlin, 2) got completely hammered along the way, 3) talked trash about his superiors [read: Obama] to a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine and 4) got himself fired for his loose-lipped carelessness.
Remember him?
Turns out he's the same guy who orchestrated the cover-up suggesting that former NFL star Pat Tillman died saving his fellow soldiers, as opposed to under a friendly-fire fusillade. Remember how pissed Tillman's Mom was about that lie? Gen. Stanley McCrystal is her #1 bad guy in that whole sordid tall tale of artificial heroism. It's not that Tillman wasn't a hero, it's that McCrystal whitewashed the circumstances of Mrs. Tillman's son's death in order to paint a shamefully false narrative for the benefit of the US military.
It was past time for McCrystal to go.
It was past time for McCrystal to go.
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