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President obama says mcchrystal created division and says he won't tolerate that. new reaction to the decision to sack his general. will critics who think he has been too weak be satisfied? and the main system for capturing gushing oil in the gulf breaks down. we'll tell you what went wrong and how this mishap could make the worst spill in u.s. history even worse. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're told general stanley mcchrystal won't even return to afghanistan to pack his bags. right now the ousted afghan war commander is keeping a low profile after his loose lips during...

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United states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i'm suzanne malveaux. you're in "the situation room." top military leaders are rallying behind the president's decision to fire his afghan war commander this week. general stanley mcchrystal was forced out after he and his aides mocked administration officials in a rolling stone magazine interview. general david petraeus, the head of u.s. central command, now is poised to take over. and the president is vowing to move forward with his war strategy. dan lothian has more on mcchrystal's fall. >> seeing that it was a change in personnel, ...

That's why they are calling on the republicans to rally on this. >> thank you, dan. well, now con confirmation hearings for supreme court pick elena kagan and the soon to be war commander in afghanistan, general petraeus. now, kagan is getting the tougher grilling of the two, as we saw. the ranking republican on the committee pounds her about her decisions as dean as harvard law school. here's how she explained it. >> senator sessions, i have repeatedly said that i believe that the don't ask, don't tell policy is unwise and unjust. i believed it then and i believe it now. and we were trying ...