Day: June 23, 2010

McChrystal Should Go

Daily Agitator

By now the media is flooded with so called experts analyzing everything that the US commander in Afghanistan has said, especially in his latest gaff in an issue of the Rolling Stone……it seems that he has disparagingly made some unfortunate comments about the President, VP, Adm. Mullen, the head of the CIA and others.

I have heard many call for McChrystal’s head when he meets with the president.  And I have heard some call his words unfortunate and lame, but that he should remain at his post in Afghanistan.

He has been commanded to appear in person at the White House for an official meeting and a private meeting with the president.  This will be strike three.  His first strike was a leaked memo where he said that the prez was unprepared and intimidated by the brass.  Next, he made some really unfortunate statements that the prez met him in London and held a meeting on Air Force One.  So today’s meeting is strike three and in baseball we all know what that means.

But shoulkd he go or should he stay?

According to the Uniform Code of Military Justice…..he should go.  Why?

§ 888. Art. 88. Contempt toward officials

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Pretty straight forward.  Now if this had been a ranking NCO or some private, he would get busted in rank and some would be given a discharge….none would be allowed to retire to avoid punitive action!

But if McChrystal leaves the military he will be allowed to resign so that he can keep his dignity and his pension and all the benefits that go with the word general.  Personally, he should be barbecued for insubordination and made an example of for future morons that cannot keep their mouths shut when dealing with the media.

Will There Be An Insanity Defense?

From the VOMITORIUM

For all those that follow the sensationalism in the media…you know those pea brains that cannot live with Britney or Lindsey or Kate and her 8 or any of the gossipy crap that floods the media….you know…if you are one of those……

I personally hate gossipy crap….but I will admit that one and a while there comes a story that I cannot pass up….and van der Sloot is one of those stories…..

You know that sleazoid a couple of years ago was the prime suspect in the death of the Alabama blonde….he was arrested more times than I have hairs on my butt and released because there was no case…no body….no witness….NOTHING!  And now this same little rich turd is being accused of killing a 21 year old Peruvian woman……

He was arrested in Chile and sent back to Peru to face the charges….first he confessed to the crime and then he retracted and then he said it was a burglar and then confessed again and …….the show continues.

But that is not what I want to talk about…….unless you are a complete moron or in a coma then you pretty much know the story….what I want to address is his defense.

My guess is they his attorneys are going to go for an insanity plea.  Why?  Easy!  All the games this Sloot dude is playing…..confessing then retracting then confessing and all the antics he is pulling in police custody.  And then games he has been playing trying to make hay out of the blond’s disappearance in Aruba a couple of years ago….trying to get money for the location of her body and the confessing to that and then not knowing anything other than he left her on the beach.  But now his Moma is involved in a recent interview she stated:

CBS News correspondent Betty Nguyen reported on “The Early Show” Monday that van der Sloot’s mother, Anita van der Sloot, has spoken to a Dutch newspaper and says her son suffers from mental problems and needs psychiatric help. But even more shocking is that she is quoted in the same report saying that he may have had something to do with the death of Stephany Flores.

Anita van der Sloot told the paper, “I now believe that Joran may have indeed done something to Stephany in Peru. Maybe in a burst of anger? I don’t know.”

She said the two spoke on the phone just after Flores’ murder. She told him, “You’re being searched. A girl is dead. Where are you?”

Joran van der Sloot reportedly replied, “It’s not Stephany, is it? No, not Stephany.”

My first thought was, “if not Stephany, then who is dead?”

All this theatrics smell like the set up for an insanity plea.  I do not know what the insanity laws are in Peru, but I would bet that it would be better to be judged insane than to spend 25 years in a Peruvian prison.

IMO, this arrogant tool is a murder….he is just playing games trying to somehow beat the rap.