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Highlights From Rolling Stone's McChrystal Profile


From *Fox News*<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/mcchrystal-says-ambassador-betrayed-criticism-afghan-war-strategy/>

*On McChrystal's first meeting with Obama:*

*"I found that time painful," McChrystal said in the article, on newsstands
Friday. "I was selling an unsellable position."*

*It quoted an adviser to McChrystal dismissing the early meeting with Obama
as a "10-minute photo op."*

*"Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. The boss was
pretty disappointed," the adviser told the magazine.*

*On Joe Biden:***

*"Are you asking about Vice President Biden?" McChrystal reportedly joked.
"Who's that?"*

...

*"Biden?" one aide was quoted as saying. "Did you say: Bite me?"*

*On Jim Jones:*

*Another aide reportedly called White House National Security Adviser Jim
Jones, a retired four star general, a "clown" who was "stuck in 1985."*

*On Richard Holbrooke:*

*"The boss says he's like a wounded animal," one of the general's aides was
quoted as saying. "Holbrooke keeps hearing rumors that he's going to get
fired, so that makes him dangerous."*

*On Karl Eikenberry:*

*McChrystal said he felt "betrayed" and accused the ambassador of giving
himself cover.*

*"Here's one that covers his flank for the history books," McChrystal told
the magazine. "Now, if we fail, they can say 'I told you so."'*
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