Reid: McChrystal “not being a very good soldier.”

Published June 21, 2010 4:00am ET



Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wouldn’t come out and say he thinks Gen. Stanley McChrystal should lose his job over the critical remarks he made about the Obama administration in Rolling Stone Magazine, but he said the decision will come down to whether Obama “feels comfortable” with having him in place to implement the war strategy in Afghanistan.

“It’s very important for the commander in chief to have confidence in his mainline troops, especially someone that’s in charge of the war in Afghanistan,” Reid told reporters Tuesday.

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