Posted By: geoff  on Monday, August 18, 2008

Didn't Bush promise to bring "honour and dignity" back to the White House? how does that square with this view of Putin laughing at him?

And no one seems to be able to explain if/how Randy Scheunemann's ties to Saakashvili fits into all of this.

Posted By: Monico Soto  on Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Whereas all true believers in democracy are aghast at the Russian invasion of Georgia, there are a few questions that must be asked.  What role did the Bush administration have in encouraging the Georgians to take military action against the Russians?  The Bushites seemed caught totally off guard at both the Georgian actions and the Russian response; where was the intelligence failure that allowed this to happen without an inkling to us?  What would the US do should a similar situation have arisen at our borders?  Indeed, what has the US reaction been to democratically elected governments in Latin America specifically, but not limited to, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala?  And what of all the McCains of the right wing?  While many are crowing and waving flags (both the US and the Georgian)and complaining about invasions, what was their stance when the Conservinazis in the Bush administration dragged us to invade Iraq?

Hypocrisy at the highest level of government seems to be the rule.

Unfortunately, we are paying with our blood and our treasure.

Posted By: Chad  on Friday, August 22, 2008

Careful with statements such as -

"died of the weight of its own incompetence at everything except brutality, repression, mass murder and building weapons of mass destruction."

Seems that description pretty much applies to the USA anytime a republican is in office.

Posted By: maxsmart  on Friday, August 22, 2008

Actually it is the US that didn't let Georgia break away and they are occupied to this day. Russia, however, let their Georgia break away but they do in fact have more interest in that region than we do in Iraq for irrelevant reasons.

We are the ones who are promoting preemptive warfare under the most tortuous of reasons. We are the ones breaking treaties when it pleases us without thinking what it's impact might be on us when some country might do the same to us.

War is a false profit for everyone involved of course, so treaties and diplomacy, and honest negotiation with good will and mutual understanding are much more useful. Reinventing the Cold War is not a very wise solution.

Posted By: Seymore Freedom  on Friday, August 22, 2008

  Wonder how much of this was actually put in motion by the Bush-Cheney Crime Family in compliance with the wishes of the Military\Industrial Complex & the oil Companies, in order to keep their McShames in power?

  Conspiracy fanatic??  Bush tells Georgia "we've got your back" knowing that there is no way we would be able to assist them.  Oil and Natural gas going across their country to the Black Sea is cut off, eventually raising the price of you know what!!!  With the Russian Bear on the prowl again, we most certainly will need more armaments; how about a few more WMD??

Of course, we will need a strong military leader to keep us safe….that wouldn’t be someone who finished 5th from the bottom of almost 900 in his class, destroyed 4 planes learning to fly or goofing off, before being shot down cruising at 30,000 feet, would it??

  No way, it has got to be my imagination!!

Posted By: Donald Wolberg  on Friday, August 22, 2008

Although Mr. Bush, ever the optimist, looked into M. Putin's eyes and "saw his soul," one must recall that it was Mr. McCain, when given the same opportunity, remarked that he: "saw KGB." Remarkably the avowed defender of freedom and democracy, Mr. Gorbachev, is not an outspoken supporter of the Russian neo-imperialist actions.