"Romney’s remarks on Afghanistan exit stir GOP alarm; Some in party see risk of muddying support for war" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff / June 16, 2011
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney and other candidates advocating withdrawal are abandoning their party orthodoxy....
Representative Ron Paul of Texas took perhaps the hardest line. “I’d bring them home as quickly as possible,’’ Paul said. “And I would get them out of Iraq as well. And I wouldn’t start a war in Libya.’’
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Jon Huntsman, who until recently was the US ambassador to China and plans to announce a presidential bid next week, has said the United States should reduce 100,000 troops in Afghanistan to 15,000. “It’s a tribal state, and it always will be,’’ he told Esquire Magazine, in an except released yesterday from its August issue. “Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don’t think that serves our strategic interests.’’
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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The comments illustrate a potential shift within a Republican Party that has long placed an emphasis on national security issues. They are also spurring intraparty disagreements over the direction of not only the war effort, but of the role of the United States in international conflicts.
The Democrats should be so ashamed of themselves that Republicans have to be the "antiwar" party.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, took issue with Romney’s comments, saying he was taking Republicans in the wrong direction.
“I was incredibly disappointed,’’ Graham told the Wall Street Journal, referring to the debate. “No one seemed to have a passion for the idea that we’re fighting radical Islam and the center of that battle is Afghanistan.’’
Anyone who has paid attention knows Graham is a Zionist slave.
Sex sure is a good way to blackmail people, huh?
Regarding Romney’s comment that only Afghans can “win Afghanistan’s independence,’’ according to the Hill newspaper Graham retorted, “This is not a war of independence. This is a war to protect America’s national vital security interests.’’
By that he means Israel, war contractors, and money-laundering banks.
Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, was even more critical. “I’ve really lost faith in Mitt Romney,’’ he said in an interview. “Something happens to someone when they become the front-runner . . . For him to make a statement like that questions whether or not we should be there, and that we should get out — it’s not going to work. To me, that statement was a killer for his nomination bid.’’
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Yer blowin' it, Mitt!
