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plan for conducting the war in afghanistan may have. summoning general mcchrystal to washington today, president obama had a choice to make that was much more important and frankly much more difficult than whether or not to fire his top commander in afghanistan. the uniform code of military justice article 88 says any commissioned officer who used contemptuous words against the president, the vice president, congress, the secretary of defense, the secretary of a military department, the secretary of transportation? 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 made direct. i don t know where the secretary of transportation gets singled out there. lucky him. the contell tempt contemptuous word standard made the decision about whether or not to remove general mcchrystal from his post not a foregone conclusion but it made it the easier of the two decisions the president had to make

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