{"id":22400,"date":"2011-02-25T03:11:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22400"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T21:30:12","slug":"really-is-there-a-general-that-you-do-not-want-to-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22400","title":{"rendered":"Really? Is there a General that you do not want to Fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure enough with Retired General McChrystal, and General Petraeus, Rethink  Afghanistan is calling for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZVvM6zdNFLg\">firing<\/a> of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Gen. William Caldwell&#8217;s use of psychological operations (&#8220;psy-ops&#8221;) experts against Senators and congresspeople visiting Afghanistan is outrageous, and Caldwell should resign immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell is one of Petraeus&#8217; most important subordinates in Afghanistan, charged with training the Afghan National Security Forces. According to Rolling Stone, he sought to use psy-ops specialists to manipulate Congress into providing more funds and troops for the failing war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>He and his staff reportedly sought psy-ops experts&#8217; help to &#8220;secretly manipulate the U.S. lawmakers without their knowledge,&#8221; and wanted &#8220;pressure points&#8221; to &#8220;leverage&#8221; when pushing visiting legislators for funds. When they balked, a Caldwell spokesperson shouted, &#8220;It&#8217;s not illegal if I say it isn&#8217;t!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell&#8217;s actions are disrespectful, dangerous and illegal. We demand his immediate resignation. If he will not give it, the president should fire him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? This is getting birther level crazy. I think someone has watched <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Strangelove\">Dr Strangelove<\/a> too many times. <\/p>\n<p>ADDED: Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationdissemination.net\/2011\/02\/not-stuff-of-bud-light-lime.html\">good reply <\/a>to the Stones article. Thanks again to Spade for the find. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure enough with Retired General McChrystal, and General Petraeus, Rethink Afghanistan is calling for the firing &hellip; <a title=\"Really? Is there a General that you do not want to Fire?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22400\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Really? Is there a General that you do not want to Fire?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}