JD> What colonels?

   The RCs of course-

 JD> there is no need for them to ask anybody else.

   Yeah, that's about what all coup-makers use to claim.

   In a democratic world (I actually thought that you lived in a such, or
maybe Canada now has become a full fledged 51st state?) you usually ask
advice from those that you represent, before you make any kind of decision.

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