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Republicans for Brutal Military Dictatorships and John McCain: GOP Convention Chief Resigns over Myanmar Work

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The man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention resigned yesterday after a report that his lobbying firm once represented the military regime in Myanmar.

Doug Goodyear resigned as coordinator of the St. Paul convention and issued this statement: "Today I offered the convention my resignation so as not to become a distraction in this campaign. I continue to strongly support John McCain for president, and wish him the best of luck in this campaign."

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What really bugs me here is that suddenly this is a political concern. It's not as if Myanmar's brutality has gone unnoticed in the last... oh... decade or so. This isn't a sense of remorse developing in the McCain campaign, it's a politically expedient move now that the insanity in Myanmar is going to cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives.

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