Retired General Stanley McChrystal Admits That He Was Shocked By The Rolling Stone Article That Led To His Firing

Barack Obama meets with Stanley A. McChrystal in the Oval Office 2009-05-19. Wikipedia

Exclusive: McChrystal Was Shocked By Controversy Over Rolling Stone Article -- Josh Rogin, The Cable/Foreign Policy

Stanley McChrystal, the retired general and former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was shocked by the Rolling Stone article that led to his firing, he reveals in a soon-to-be-published memoir.

"Sir, we have a problem," McChrystal aide Charlie Flynn told McChrystal upon waking him up at 2:00 in the morning one night in Afghanistan. "The Rolling Stone article is out and it's really bad."

"'How in the world could that story have been a problem?' I thought, stunned," McChrystal wrote in the memoir, which is set to be released Jan. 7. (The Cable obtained a copy of the book independently from a local bookstore and was not a party to a publisher's embargo on the information contained within.)

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My Comment: He was shocked ?!?!?! When I read the Rolling Stone .... even I knew that he was gone .... the only thing that I did not know was .... was he going to be fired right away, told to resign, or be transferred to some outpost in Alaska.