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Posted: **June 26th, 2006, 9:27 am**

Report of Troop Cuts Draws IreDemocrats say Pentagon plan resembles Senate resolution that was soundly defeated last week
-Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated Thursday on a largely party-line vote in the Senate.

Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), one of the two sponsors of the nonbinding resolution, which offered no pace or completion date for a withdrawal, said the report is another sign of what he termed one of the "worst-kept secrets in town" -- that the administration intends to pull out troops before the midterm elections in November.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00764.html

Posted: **June 27th, 2006, 1:14 am**

Politics is brutal, brutal business. We should have seen it by now.

Posted: **June 27th, 2006, 1:37 am**

I read an opinion piece in The Washington Post in the summer of 2001 reporting that Rumseld was on his way out . One of those inside the beltway columns. They called him Rip Van Rummy.

It was a magic moment when Laurel met Hardy. When Osama met Donald was another.

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"...one of the "worst-kept secrets in town" –

"...one of the "worst-kept secrets in town" –