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<DIV><EM>Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, <BR>Full of that Yankee
Doodly Dumb...</EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><EM>- (words, with apology to "Yip" Harburg)</EM></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Two news items seem to suggest that sentiment in
the ruling class is turning against the War in Afghanistan.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I dont find that it is a sudden wave of
compassionate consciousness bursting across their cortex.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In my opinion it has to do with money and the fact
that the US is flat-on its-proverbial-ass-broke and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>can hardly find a "buddy" who can spare
up a new "paradigm" for them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3><STRONG>Item 1: Michael Steele
will stay on as head of the RNC.</STRONG></FONT> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>RNC confirms Michael Steele will remain chairman</DIV>
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<DIV class=postmetadata><SPAN class=author>By <A
href="http://dailycaller.com/author/cmoody/">Chris Moody</A> - The Daily
Caller</SPAN> 1:33 AM 07/07/2010 </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=print-ad-inner>Despite numerous calls for his resignation over
comments made criticizing the war effort in Afghanistan, Republican National
Committee Chairman Michael Steele will not step down, RNC spokesman Doug Heye
confirmed Tuesday. Steele will stay on as the head of the
committee amid criticism from Senate Republicans who took to the airwaves over
the weekend to condemn his comments that the war in Afghanistan could not be
won. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina appeared on the Sunday talk shows to discuss the chairman’s fate as
leader of the Republican Party.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Appearing on ABC’s <EM>This Week </EM>on a live feed from Kabul,
McCain called Steele’s comments “wildly inaccurate” but stopped short of
saying he should resign. “[Steele] is going to have to assess as to whether he
can still lead the Republican Party as chairman of the Republican National
Committee and make an appropriate decision,” McCain said. While
traveling with McCain in Afghanistan, Graham called Steele’s remarks an
“uninformed, unnecessary, unwise, untimely comment” during an interview with
<EM>Face the Nation </EM>on CBS. “This is not President Obama’s war; this is
America’s war,” he said.<BR>Read more: <A style="COLOR: rgb(0,51,153)"
href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/07/rnc-confirms-michael-steele-will-remain-chairman/print/#ixzz0t5ZImkCV">http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/07/rnc-confirms-michael-steele-will-remain-chairman/print/#ixzz0t5ZImkCV</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>but, Curiouser & Curiouser, party
shill Ann Coulter (???) chimes in with an attack on the slithy tove
Bloody Bill Kristol. </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Good for her.
Some of the things she is saying are weak, and others really dont jibe with her
previous jabberwocky but apparently "it dont take a principled Weatherman to
know" which way "the fresh wind is blowing against the empire".</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT
size=3><STRONG>Item #2: Bill Kristol Must Resign.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV class=article_body><FONT face="Times New Roman">by Ann
Coulter</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=article_body><FONT face="Times New Roman">Republican National
Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama's
war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs,
isn't likely to turn out well....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=article_body><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=article_body><FONT face="Times New Roman">...At this point,
Afghanistan is every bit as much Obama's war as Vietnam was Lyndon Johnson's
war. True, President Kennedy was the first to send troops to Vietnam. We had
16,000 troops in Vietnam when JFK was assassinated. Within four years, LBJ had
sent 400,000 troops there.<BR><BR>In the entire seven-year course of the
Afghanistan war under Bush, from October 2001 to January 2009, 625 American
soldiers were killed. In 18 short months, Obama has nearly doubled that number
to 1,124 Americans killed.<BR><BR>Republicans used to think seriously about
deploying the military. President Eisenhower sent aid to South Vietnam, but
said he could not "conceive of a greater tragedy" for America than getting
heavily involved there...As Michael Steele correctly noted, every great power
that's tried to stage an all-out war in Afghanistan has gotten its ass handed
to it. Everyone knows it's not worth the trouble and resources to take a
nation of rocks and brigands...</FONT></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman">...</FONT><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">Nonetheless, Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney have demanded
that Steele resign as head of the RNC for saying Afghanistan is now Obama's
war -- and a badly thought-out one at that. (Didn't liberals warn us that
neoconservatives want permanent war?)<BR><BR>I thought the irreducible
requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government and a
strong national defense, but I guess permanent war is on the platter now,
too.<BR><BR>Of course, if Kristol is writing the rules for being a Republican,
we're all going to have to get on board for amnesty and a "National Greatness
Project," too – other Kristol ideas for the Republican Party. Also, John
McCain. Kristol was an early backer of McCain for president -- and look how
great that turned out!<BR><BR>Inasmuch as demanding resignations is another
new Republican position, here's mine: Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney must resign
immediately.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=article_body><FONT face="Times New Roman"><BR><A
href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37950">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37950</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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