http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-22/mcchrystal-offers-resignation-after-disparaging-comments-on-war.html June 22 (Bloomberg) -- General Stanley McChrystal offered his resignation after he and unnamed aides made comments in a magazine article disparaging administration officials over their handling of the war in Afghanistan, according to a government official.
McChrystal, who is scheduled to visit the White House tomorrow to discuss his comments with President Barack Obama, verbally offered to resign to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said the official, who asked not to be identified.
The comments by McChrystal and aides reported in Rolling Stone magazine threaten to fracture a unified front that President Barack Obama has sought to build for the war and distract efforts to hold together an international coalition doing the fighting.
Obama reacted with anger upon reading the article, his spokesman said, and officials from the White House to the Pentagon to Congress called McChrystal’s remarks a serious lapse in judgment.
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