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...Praised (and inadvertently outed as a commander) by President George W. Bush in June 2006 after his special-ops team located and killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal reportedly accompanied his men to the bombed-out hideaway in Baquba where al-Zarqawi lay to help identify the body...
...appointed chief of staff of military operations in Afghanistan. Two years later, he was selected to deliver nationally televised Pentagon briefings about military operations in Iraq...
...commander of special-operations forces in Iraq, he sent troops returning to the theater back to their original neighborhoods - a system he has suggested for general infantry soldiers in Afghanistan as head of a recent task-force review...
...expecting to drive into Baghdad suddenly and seize it in a coup de main." - On the military's approach to conquering Iraq's capital (TIME, April...
...would anticipate that the major combat engagements are over because the major Iraqi units on the ground cease to show coherence." - Talking to reporters a month after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, adding: "I think we will move into a phase where it is smaller, albeit sharp, fights" (Washington Times...