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Originally posted by Interestinggg
The conflict between Russia/South Osettia/Abkhazia and Georgia has been going on since before the current 2 term president was even in office.
Originally posted by TeslaandLyne
Originally posted by Interestinggg
The conflict between Russia/South Osettia/Abkhazia and Georgia has been going on since before the current 2 term president was even in office.
I have never heard of this and perhaps it is Russia's problem.
Originally posted by JanusFIN
Who believe anything what comes from White House anymore?
Some WMD:s maybe, explosions in towers at 911, in Pentagon... Osama... or Bush votes in Florida? Oh, I forget The War On Drugs... Just crazy!
Putin have not been acused from straight lies, so he is more trusted.
Originally posted by JanusFIN
And after all Russia succeed, where US fall to endless quaqmires...
Originally posted by JanusFIN
1. They didnt push forward and invade a country that they cant win, but they withdraw, after enemy was beaten down in front of them.
2. They didnt rush to capital, even when the road was clear, because they didnt have a plan to keep it.
3. There is time for policy, and time for war, not time for endless war by policy.
Originally posted by JanusFIN
4. Russia we will love, US we will hate.
Originally posted by Sestias
I hope I'm posting in the earliest thread on this subject (there are three now).
Much as I dislike Bush and his policies, I find it hard to believe he would provoke the present conflict just in order to influence the election. Even he can't be that crazy. . . . .can he?
Originally posted by chips
He actually pointed the finger directly at George W. Bush.
"U.S. citizens were indeed in the area in conflict," Putin said. "They were acting in implementing those orders doing as they were ordered, and the only one who can give such orders is their leader."
(CNN)
Putin: U.S. orchestrated war
Originally posted by JanusFIN
Georgia conflict may have been provoked to aid U.S. presidential candidate - Putin
en.rian.ru
(visit the link for the full news article)
MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin prompted an angry reaction from Washington on Thursday after suggesting the Georgia conflict may have been provoked to give an advantage to "one of" the U.S. presidential candidates.
"If my guess is right, then it raises the suspicion that someone in the US deliberately created this conflict in order to worsen the situation and create an advantage... for one of the candidates for the post of president of the United States," Putin said on CNN.
Originally posted by Leo Strauss
Randy Scheunemann, the senior foreign policy advisor for John McCain, worked for four years as a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government. I posted this in the other Georgia thread. I meant to post here.
Link to Article
Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government who ended his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser.
In 2005, while registered as a paid lobbyist for Georgia, Scheunemann worked with McCain to draft a congressional resolution pushing for Georgia’s membership in NATO. A year later, while still on the Georgian payroll, Scheunemann accompanied McCain on a trip to that country, where they met with Saakashvili and supported his bellicose views toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Scheunemann is at the center of the neoconservative cabal that has come to dominate the Republican candidate’s foreign policy stance in a replay of the run-up to the war against Iraq. These folks are always looking for a foreign enemy on which to base a new Cold War, and with the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, it was Putin’s Russia that came increasingly to fit the bill.