Jewish neocon Kristol calls for Black GOP chairman Steele’s head over war comments
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WASHINGTON — Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, drew fierce criticism and a call for his resignation on Friday after declaring at a party fund-raiser that the United States was on the wrong side of history with its conflict in Afghanistan, a military fight he called “a war of Obama’s choosing.”
Bill Kristol“This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,” Mr. Steele said in a speech Thursday night in Connecticut in which he offered a strong critique of President Obama’s military strategy.
“It was the president who was trying to be cute by half by flipping a script demonizing Iraq, while saying the battle really should be Afghanistan,” Mr. Steele said, according to a video of his remarks that was circulated by Democrats on Friday. “Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?”
Mr. Steele, seeking to clarify his remarks, issued a statement on Friday afternoon, saying, “There is no question that America must win the war on terror.”
His remarks were the latest in a string of controversial statements that he has made as party chairman.
The war in Afghanistan, which has entered its ninth year, was started by former President George W. Bush in response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Obama shifted the focus on the war on terrorism from Iraq to Afghanistan and last year announced his plan to send 30,000 more troops there.
Mr. Steele’s comments prompted William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and a leading voice of conservative support for the war in Afghanistan, to call for Mr. Steele’s resignation as party leader.
“Your tenure has, of course, been marked by gaffes and embarrassments, but I for one have never paid much attention to them, and have never thought they would matter much to the success of the causes and principles we share,” Mr. Kristol wrote Friday. He added, “Needless to say, the war in Afghanistan was not ‘a war of Obama’s choosing.’ It has been prosecuted by the United States under Presidents Bush and Obama.”
He added, “There are, of course, those who think we should pull out of Afghanistan, and they’re certainly entitled to make their case. But one of them shouldn’t be the chairman of the Republican Party.”
A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, Brad Woodhouse, said Mr. Steele was “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan.” Republican officials dismissed that criticism.
When Mr. Steele made the remarks, he was speaking to Republican contributors at a fund-raiser in Connecticut. Linda McMahon, the party’s candidate for the United States Senate in Connecticut, was in the audience, along with other leading state Republicans. The video appears to have been taken by a hidden camera at an event that was closed to the press. Republican officials did not dispute the authenticity of the video, but disputed its characterization.
In his statement on Friday afternoon, Mr. Steele did not respond to the call for his resignation. But he sought to make the case that Afghanistan is now Mr. Obama’s war.
“For the sake of the security of the free world, our country must give our troops the support necessary to win this war,” Mr. Steele said. “As we have learned throughout history, winning a war in Afghanistan is a difficult task. We must also remember that after the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, it is also a necessary one.”
He added, with a reference to Gen. David H. Petraeus: “That is why I supported the decision to increase our troop force and, like the entire United States Senate, I support General Petraeus’s confirmation. The stakes are too high for us to accept anything but success in Afghanistan.”
Source: NY Times.
Apart from the fact that Afghanistan had nothinig to do with 9/11 and the Taliban were working against Bin Lain and trying to prevent 9/11.
Didn’t Kristol and his Neocon friends at the forefront of advocating Clintons pro-Bosnian stance in the Balkans who Atta and KSM were given citizenship and fought in the Bosnian war whose governement official working out of Vienna, Austria since the early 90’s transfered money to Atta while in the US.
Or there support of Turkey who helped train some of the 9/11 hijackers.
Kristol isnt even a NeoCon, he’s a NeoLib, NeoBolshevik, NeoLeninist, NeoRedTerrorHobGoblin
We need to take back or countries vocabulary. Because without it, nothing means anything anymore. What better environment for evil to thrive in.
Not talking about you Mike. Just saying in general.
Anyways, im surprised Kritol hasn’t been shot yet. Every public town hall meeting he goes too the crowd yells at him.
“the Taliban were working against Bin Lain and trying to prevent 9/11. ”
What planet are you on?
How could the Taliban have stopped the Jews and Freemasons from carrying out 911? That makes no sense.
Of course the likes of Kristol did 911.
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Kristol vs Steele: Devil vs Idiot
Agreed, Akira.
JohnUK is just another neo-con sycophant/apologist, whether he realizes it or not.
Nationalist Realist – Your argument is no better than someone on the other side saying, “XXX is a racist or a Nazi or has cooties.” Come up with an argument that makes sense rather than use name-calling.
I like how the minorities running the largest-white political party in the world are falling apart over an untenable war.
If JohnUK believes in and defends the neo-con 9/11 story, he’s a neo-con sycophant/apologist. That’s not “name-calling”, that’s accurate description.
“I like how the minorities running the largest-white political party in the world are falling apart over an untenable war.”
The party isn’t falling apart. The war effort is not falling apart. The Jews have that operation set up very securely.
And the war is not “untenable”, far from it. Why should it be “untenable”?
Throw enough money and resources at it (check) and it will continuing going on. There’s no domestic or international opposition.
1. “The War” will never stop as long as the USA exists. Never.
http://reasonradionetwork.com/?p=8546&cpage=2#comment-12182
2. To say that Kristol is not a Neo-Con is incomprehensibly absurd. His father was the prime propagandist of Neo-Conning.
To add that Kristol is not a Neo-Con but rather a Neo-Liberal or Neo-Red-Terror-Hob-Goblin is equally absurd. It is a statement with no regard for reality.
The prime motivator of the Red Terror was Trotsky. The Neo-Cons are Trotskytes. They are believers in perpetual Jew-run global revolution. They are the Comintern. In the American context, Neo-Con means those Trotskyites such as the Jew Kristol or the Jew Hitchens or the Jew Wolfowitz, et al, who pretend to be conservatives in order to infiltrate and take over the Rep Wing of the CFR’s Dem-Rep Party.
“Neo-Libs” indicates their fellow-travelers in the Dem-Wing.
“To add that Kristol is not a Neo-Con but rather a Neo-Red-Terror-Hob-Goblin is equally absurd.” – Akira
“The prime motivator of the Red Terror was Trotsky. The Neo-Cons are Trotskytes.” – Akira
What planet are you on? You just contradicted yourself all in the span of two sentences. That has to break some sort of record.